Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus, even as the deposed Shah clung stubbornly to life in Cairo's Maadi Military Hospital following abdominal surgery, the mullahs waged war on his ghost in Iran. Thousands of photographs of the ousted monarch were burned in mass bonfires, the Pahlavi crest was hastily scissored from government stationery, and workmen hammered stone bas-reliefs of the imperial crown from the façades of public buildings. Hundreds of civil servants and teachers who were accused of having ties with the former regime were purged from government offices and universities...
...Washington, the Carter Administration reacted with alarm and anger, fearing that the bombings could lead to a more serious unrest. At the U.N., the Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the bombings. In every Arab capital, from Cairo to Baghdad, governments attacked Israel for its domination of the Palestinians. And within the West Bank, the local population reacted with rage. Strikes were called, but were quickly broken by Israeli soldiers, who ordered shopkeepers not to close, and in some cases broke open locked doors. When Mayor Shaka'a was moved to a hospital in Jordan, crowds of Palestinians...
Moving beyond the hostage crisis and Afghanistan, the Islamabad conference blasted the U.S., Egypt and Israel for their role in the Camp David accords and other "subversive measures engineered by the imperialist and Zionist aggressors" against the Palestinians. Muslim states were urged to sever all ties with Cairo, while Israel was denounced for the Knesset's preliminary approval two weeks ago of a bill declaring Jerusalem the country's perpetual and indivisible capital...
...stands at 215 Americans, plus 315 local employees. But at a time when the fortress-like U.S. embassy compound in Tehran remains in the hands of Iranian militants, and the American missions in Islamabad and Tripoli are still scarred from last year's assaults, many staffers in Cairo question the wisdom of constructing an opulent symbol that could easily turn into a lightning rod for anti-American protests. Top aides to Ambassador Alfred Atherton argue that the building would represent a "blatant political statement," and some have already dubbed the proposed compound Tehran...
...State Department contends that the high-rise skyscraper, designed by a Washington architectural firm, Metcalf & Eddy, would serve as a more secure garrison in case of attack than the suggested alternative of clustered bungalows. Huffed one official at State, defending the project: "No one in Cairo has raised a palm about its potential hazards...