Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month before he was assassinated, in 1981, President Anwar Sadat ordered the detention of Shenouda, eight bishops and 22 parish priests, accusing them of fomenting unrest. Since then, Shenouda has been forced to live at the 4th century Monastery of St. Bishoi, in the desert northwest of Cairo. In 1983 the government finally specified the charges against Shenouda. Among them: emphasizing a Coptic identity, urging churches to teach the old Coptic language, "encouraging hostility toward the regime" by asserting Copts' political grievances, and resisting legislation aimed at making Egypt more Islamic. Since then, however, Muslim and Christian enmity in Egypt...
...year's most bizarre plots: he had succeeded in embarrassing Gaddafi by ensnarling the Libyan dictator in one of his own adventures. The previous day, the Tripoli government radio had gleefully announced that a Libyan "suicide squad" had assassinated former Libyan Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Bakkush in Cairo. In fact, the assassins' plot had been uncovered by Egyptian authorities before the hitmen reached their intended victim. Bakkush was roughed up by the Egyptians, smeared with human blood and photographed to look as if he had been murdered. The pictures were sent to Gaddafi, who immediately took credit...
Mubarak was clearly elated over his triumph. In August the Egyptian President accused Gaddafi of mining the Red Sea and in October of plotting to blow up the Aswan Dam. In neither case, however, did he have solid evidence. But this time, said a Western diplomat in Cairo, "the Egyptians hooked him. He swallowed everything before they hauled him in." British officials are skeptical of the whole affair, and government sources in London have suggested that Egypt has gone slightly overboard in its version of what occurred...
...slept in the Tulip Hotel in 'beautiful' downtown Cairo for $1 a night," she quipped...
...Peres visited Washington and New York City, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was paying a courtesy call on King Hussein of Jordan to thank him for renewing diplomatic ties with Egypt last month. Like most other Arab states, Jordan broke relations with Cairo in 1979 after the late Anwar Sadat signed a peace treaty with Israel. Since succeeding Sadat in 1981, Mubarak has worked hard to gain Arab approbation, giving Iraq strong backing in its war against Iran. Hussein decided to risk the wrath of Syria, Libya and other radical Arab states by restoring Jordan's formal ties with Egypt...