Word: anware
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that dramatic public confession, First Lieut. Khaled Ahmed Shawki Islambuli, 24, a stocky artillery officer in the Egyptian army, last week told a three-judge military tribunal how he had assassinated President Anwar Sadat during a military parade on Oct. 6. Islambuli is accused of leading the four-man hit team that jumped out of a truck during the parade and charged the reviewing stand, firing automatic weapons and hurling grenades. Seven other people died in the attack, and 28 were wounded...
...honest folk at Southland Corporation, though, have done their best to keep some measure of realism in Christmas 1981. Ronald Reagan, John Paul II, Anwar Sadat all were felled by gunmen this year; what, then, could be more topical, more true to life, than a board game called "Assassin...
...with Henry Kissinger in Vladivostok to work out a SALT agreement or sending the Marines after the Mayaguez? Ten to one for peace. And Jimmy Carter will never come closer to heaven in this life than when he flew back from Camp David to announce that Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat had accepted his peace accords...
...late Anwar Sadat in 1974 launched al infitah (the opening), a much heralded attempt to promote foreign investment by lifting restrictions on trade and the movement of currency. In addition, the government promised that the peace treaty Egypt signed with Israel in March 1979 would lead to a business boom. Said the billboards in Cairo at the time: PEACE EQUALS PROSPERITY...
FIVE GROUPS PARTICIPATED IN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION TO SEIZE POWER, cried the headline in Cairo's semiofficial newspaper Al Ahram. Last week, in a kind of interim report on its investigations into the assassination of Anwar Sadat, government officials said the plot was far wider than had originally been suspected. Right after the killing, officials had insisted that only four men were involved. But according to President Hosni Mubarak, who succeeded Sadat, at least 700 people were part of a web of revolutionaries whose general aim was to overthrow the government. Said Mubarak: "Security in our country is my first...