Word: amer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Egyptian forces are "working day and night seven days a week" learning to use new Stalin tanks, MIG fighters and IL-28 jet bombers, Amer announced last week. But Western military observers think that many months must pass before the Egyptians can master their new weapons...
...Amer confirmed for the first time that Egypt is getting submarines as part of its Soviet-bloc arms deal. Their obvious purpose: to blockade Israel...
...have a war over Jordan water. Besides. Cairo and other Arab capitals, so lately cocky over Soviet help, have been cooled off considerably by B. and K.'s pledge to the British to work for Middle East peace. "Egypt does not want war," said Major General Hakim Amer in Cairo last week. "We appreciate the consequences...
...Minister Amer. an earnest, soft-spoken farmer boy from the Upper Nile, is the No. 2 man of Egypt's revolutionary regime, the closest confidant of Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser, and the leader who would assume command of the allied armies of Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Yemen should war break out with Israel...
...cocktail aeon in the Elysian Fields, and the composers gathered at Calliope's. "Let whoever will make a nation's laws," said someone for the millionth time, "if I can make its songs." There was a silence. "Who makes Amer ica's songs these days?" asked Stephen Foster. George Gershwin removed his cigar. "No one you know," he said. "Or probably ever will." "It depends what you mean by the word song," observed Jerome Kern mildly...