Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with him in a motorcade through a welcoming crowd expected to be at least 1 million strong. Anxious to show off his prize guests even more-they are the living proof that his policies are working-Sadat will take the Nixons the next morning on a slow train to Alexandria, 140 miles away. They will spend part of the time in an observation car so that the Americans can wave to the three to five million Egyptians who are expected to swarm along the tracks. "If our security people had a vote," said one White House adviser...
...Secretary of State's tour de force was truly breathtaking. In a month abroad he had logged 24,230 miles, visited Jerusalem 16 times and Damascus 13, and made side trips to Algiers, Alexandria, Amman, Riyadh, Cairo and Nicosia.* Praise for Kissinger was all but universal. In the U.S., a Harris poll taken before disengagement was announced showed that 85% of Americans questioned considered that he was doing a "good to excellent" job. It was the highest rating ever recorded for anyone from the Executive Branch...
...President. Nonetheless Nixon plans to make a ten-day visit to Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia, probably beginning late next week. Sadat, confident that such a trip was in the offing, had already ordered the refurbishing of palaces once owned by King Farouk in Cairo and Alexandria for the presidential visit...
APRIL 30. Arrives in Alexandria for two days of talks with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...
...addition, she touched a few bases that Henry missed, managing to meet with a passel of VIPs and not-so-VIPs, ranging from the Baron and Baroness Edmond de Rothschild (at a swank restaurant near Jerusalem) to Dr. Mieczyslaw Rodziewicz, a young Polish archaeologist who was working near Alexandria. She commiserated with his exasperation upon discovering a new apartment building above a potentially rich...