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...convened a meeting of the commanders of all corps, armies, and divisions. The plan laid down to liquidate the Deversoir pocket was discussed for over seven hours, and I endorsed it. A commander was appointed to carry it out-General Saad Mamun, who is governor of Cairo at present...
...Soviet Union had become Egypt's principal source of arms. According to Sadat, dealing with the Russians was often an exercise in frustration: promises were made and not kept, messages from Cairo went unanswered, and arms
...would be held, was the agreed deadline. The idea was that we should be adequately prepared by November, when a new American President would have been elected, to resort to military action if all avenues to peace continued to be blocked. They agreed to this and I returned to Cairo...
...shuttled back and forth between Jerusalem and Cairo last week...
...descended from a common ancestor, a beast called Dryopithecus (meaning tree ape), which appeared in Africa some 20 million years ago. But who, or what, preceded it? As far back as 1963, Simons, then at Yale, began uncovering in the wind-scoured Fayum desert region, southwest of Cairo, bones of a likely candidate: a small, fox-sized, tree-inhabiting primate, which he dubbed Aegyptopithecus (Egyptian Ape), that lived some 28 million to 30 million years ago. Returning there last fall, Simons and a colleague from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, John Fleagle, discovered the latest pieces...