Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only the narrowest of margins saved Sadat from being in jail instead of his enemies-or dead. TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, piecing together details of the power struggle, reported from Cairo that Sadat survived only because of the loyalty of a few individuals. One was Alexandria's Governor Mamdouh Salem, who flew to Cairo two weeks ago and informed Sadat that Gomaa's secret organization planned to assassinate him during a scheduled visit to the University of Alexandria. Sadat abruptly postponed the trip. Salem, who was later rewarded with the post of Interior Minister, led a platoon...
...rate of one every 40 seconds. Sadat is trying to meet some of the inevitable problems that this overbreeding creates, particularly in a nation where much of the population is crowded into a narrow ribbon of verdant land astride the life-giving Nile. In both Cairo and Alexandria, the country's two dominant cities, emergency repairs are under way to keep haphazard water, sewage and electricity systems functioning. Last week Sadat promised old age pensions for all Egyptians within a year, and forecast constitutional reform "which will shape our society...
...Suez, once home to 268,000 people, now has 10,000. In Ismailia, nearly every building has been shattered by bombs or pocked by shell holes, and the city's 100,000 former citizens have joined 400,000 other onetime canalside residents as squatters in Cairo and Alexandria. Port Tewfik, at the southern end, needs virtually to be rebuilt. Aside from a few peasants tilling the land, the only population on the Egyptian side is military, including as many as seven divisions of infantry. On the eastern bank, the Israelis are deeply entrenched in shellproof bunkers...
...Good Hope more cheaply than the smaller tankers that used to ply the canal. The Trans-Israel Pipeline now transports 19 million tons of oil a year, from Eilat to Ashkelon. Egypt, with French and Italian aid, will begin building its own $210 million pipeline from Port Suez to Alexandria this summer...
...another incident at the Court, a nineteen-year-old Alexandria, Va., man was ejected from the Supreme Court chambers for wearing a button supporting the VVAW. He was asked to take off the button, but refused, and as police escorted him away, raised his hand toward Burger, saying "Please support the veterans." He was released outside...