Word: azhar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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French is the primary language not only of the educated but also of the major cities generally. When Castro spoke in Spanish to a crowd of 25,000 in Algiers, his speech was translated not into Arabic but into French. Boumedienne, who studied at Cairo's Al Azhar University, is one of the few government leaders who regard Arabic as their first language. Even so, when Algeria's boss -wearing coat, tie and shirt in contrast to the open-neck military khakis of his guest-appeared in public with Castro, he looked more like a French petit bourgeois...
...demanding vengeance for "the blood of the martyrs." If one of the Israelis' objectives was to weaken Nasser, the raid seemed to be having the opposite effect -at least for the time being. "Nasser! Nasser!" screamed the crowds as Egypt's President drove to prayers at Al Azhar mosque with visiting Sudanese Premier Jaafar Nemery and Libyan Leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Two newspapers in the Egyptian capital, noting that U.S. Phantom jets had been used to carry out the Abu Zabal raid, called it "an American-Israeli crime in which Nixon is an accomplice...