Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end, 850 members of the 82nd Airborne Division parachuted into the Egyptian desert near Cairo West in a mock assault. In subsequent days and weeks, across the expanse of northeast Africa, other exercises will range from the field testing of water purification systems to full-scale U.S.-Egyptian army exercises. The most spectacular event will occur on Nov. 24, when six B-52 bombers, flying from North Dakota bases and refueled three times in midair, will skim across the Egyptian desert at an altitude of a few hundred feet and drop live bombs (see map), a feat...
Traffic in Cairo streets is regularly blocked by $40,000 Mercedes while their owners indulge Gucci tastes in smart boutiques. Foreign banks and trading companies compete for expensive floor space in new high-rise office buildings. Yet near by, millions of lower-and middle-class residents crowd ramshackle dwellings in fetid slums, and millions of fellahin till fields of wheat and rice in the Nile Delta as seasonal workers for $2 a day. In Egypt, a patina of superficial prosperity gilds a fragile economic core. The revenues from new trade policies and foreign investment are flowing...
...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...
...corrupt and immobile government bureaucracy. Investors have also been turned away by the continued deterioration of vital services. Making telephone calls can take half a day because connections are poor. Water taps are often dry, and whole neighborhoods are frequently inundated with sewage. Public transportation, especially in Cairo, is badly overcrowded and unreliable...
Sadat's program hardly touched the lives of Egypt's poverty-stricken masses. Mokhtar Younis, 54, is a baggage porter at the Cairo railroad station and lives in a nearby slum. He is able to get work only about 15 days a month, for which he receives a monthly take-home pay of about $14. He and his wife Ne'mat, 28, live with their eleven children in a single room that measures just...