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...consecutive "skunk winters," when temperatures were so mild that sick animals were not killed off quickly by the cold, are being blamed for the proliferation of rabid animals. But at least part of the problem is that packs of dogs now prowl the roads of an area near Cairo, Ill., known as Little Egypt. Many animals have been abandoned by their owners, often University of Southern Illinois students from Carbondale who simply turn their pets loose when the school year ends. Other pack members are house dogs allowed to go unleashed. In Royalton, Amy Imhoff, 6, was savagely bitten...
Egypt was the first stop on his itinerary. Haig met with Sadat for two hours at the Egyptian leader's villa outside Cairo and declared that Sadat's "strategic appraisal closely coincides with President Reagan's own world views." Nonetheless, the Egyptian President would not make a formal agreement allowing the U.S. to utilize the Red Sea air and naval base at Tas Banas. Sadat has offered to let American troops use the facilities temporarily, but Washington would prefer a written contract before spending the $106 million needed for modernization...
...convinced that he holds the truth in his back pocket. Consequently, in addressing others-including the heads of great nations-he adopts the manner of a teacher talking to his pupils. There is something overbearing about his manner, and I suspect it has infuriated certain key figures in Washington, Cairo and elsewhere...
...Claude Auchinleck, 96, British field marshal who in 1941 opened the North African campaign that led to the defeat of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel; in Marrakesh, Morocco. After winning the first battle of El Alamein, Auchinleck was relieved of his command for refusing to counterattack Rommel west of Cairo...
...Every time I visit Chicago, I have new ideas to take back to Cairo," said Jehan Sadat, 47, in the Windy City last week before wrapping up her two-week, seven-city good-will tour of the U.S. Egypt's First Lady was particularly "happy to see that the mayor of Chicago is a woman." For Sadat's accomplishments in the "advancement of women's rights in Egypt" and "commitment to social causes," she received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the city's DePaul University. "Women are now contributing significantly in Egypt," she observed...