Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sadat's insistence, Marei was named head of the People's Assembly, despite vigorous protests against his staunch upper-class conservatism. Also close to Sadat is Premier Mamduh Salem, 57, a former policeman who endeared himself to the President in 1971 by arresting the then Vice President Ali Sabry, a Communist sympathizer, on charges of plotting to overthrow the President. Since then, Sadat has had a record of no serious internal opposition...
...Gregory has agreed to be this year's 1975 Class Day speaker on Wednesday afternoon. The senior class almost had to settle for John Kenneth Galbraith, retiring Warburg Professor of Economics, because as late as last Thursday, the Class Day Committee had not landed a speaker to replaces Muhammad Ali...
...committee invited Ali in May and he accepted, but when his manager reminded the heavyweight champion that they would have to be in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, by today to begin training for his next defense of his title, Ali had to back committee...
They had already tried Bill Cosby and Mel Brooks--the first and second choices--and after Ali on the list came journalist Hunter S. Thompson and Washington Post publisher Kathryn Graham...
...Ali will not receive a fee or travelling expenses for his June 4 lecture. Wiedemann said...