Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winding up a three-nation Middle East tour, demurred. Pleading that he "didn't come here to cry poor mouth," the Vice President nonetheless declared that the U.S. was "facing very difficult budgetary times" and could not guarantee an increase of its $2.2 billion in annual aid to Cairo. But he did promise to discuss Egypt's needs with President Reagan. Said Bush: "A stable Egypt is vitally in the interest of the United States...
...months ahead, Egypt's financial crisis, the worst in many years, may become increasingly difficult to brush aside. Unless Cairo can find a way to gain relief from payments coming due on its $35 billion foreign debt, it may be forced either to default on loans or to cut domestic spending so drastically as to risk provoking a political crisis. Since almost any new regime is likely to be more influenced by Islamic fundamentalists than Mubarak's has been, Washington has good reason to make sure that Egypt ultimately gets the aid it needs. Says one Western observer: "No matter...
...Bush and his wife Barbara enjoyed a dinner with the King and his American-born wife, Queen Noor. Said a Bush aide: "They got along like back-porch neighbors." After a sojourn at the King's palace on the Gulf of Aqaba, Bush was scheduled to go on to Cairo for talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak...
Purple Rose of Cairo...
Purple Rose of Cairo Fri.--Sat, at 6:15, 9:30 p.m. Also...