Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...submachine guns stood guard. The University of Tehran was closed to forestall embarrassing signs of protest. By 1978, resentment against the imperial arrogance of Persepolis had ignited a revolution that spread from mosques to merchants to the remotest villages of the country. When Mohammed Reza Pahlavi died in a Cairo hospital last week at the age of 60 of lymphatic cancer complicated by a hemorrhage of the pancreas, it was after 18 months of exile...
Building the Cairo connection
...tight formation, the twelve Phantom F-4E jets streaked in low over the Pyramids of Giza, then banked in a sharp descent to land at Cairo West airbase. After a 13-hr, flight from Moody Air Force Base in Georgia, the American fighters were joining a sister squadron of 35 Egyptian Phantoms for three months of joint maneuvers. The training exercises, first to be held by American forces in the Middle East in several years, were a striking symbol of Egypt's emergence as a vital partner of the U.S. in the region...
...aborted attempt to rescue the American hostages in Iran three months ago, Sadat permitted U.S. C-130 transports as well as rescue troops to use Egypt as a staging area, and he has said he would do so again. As many as a dozen official U.S. delegations pass through Cairo each month, not to mention a steady flow of American politicians, businessmen and tourists. U.S. development aid is pouring into Egypt at the rate of $100 million per month. During the next five years, Washington plans to send more than $4 billion worth of arms to Egypt to replace antiquated...
Beyond that, America's Cairo connection is threatened by the lack of progress on the Egyptian-Israeli negotiations over Palestinian autonomy. Delegates from each side last week ended three days of preliminary talks, unable even to reach agreement on the agenda, with visceral expressions of hostility. At issue was the status of Jerusalem. As U.S. Delegate Herbert Hansell listened in obvious discomfort, Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali told reporters in Cairo that "Jerusalem is an integral part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and Israel refuses to discuss it." Israeli Minister of Justice Shmuel Tamir...