Word: cairo
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...Assad is merely asserting Syria's role as the traditional defender of pan-Arab nationalism. As spokesman for this cause, Assad attacked Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for making the separate Sinai agreements with Israel that have, for the moment, shattered the Arab confrontation front. Since the second accord, Cairo and Damascus have been engaged in a bitter rhetorical feud. Egypt has taunted Syria for having sought a private agreement with Israel by begging for a cease-fire only 24 hours after the fighting commenced in 1973. Cairo newspapers have charged that Syrian "prisons and concentration camps are crammed with...
...Nations Emergency Force. Two days after the Israeli pullout, Egypt formally took possession again. Within hours a tanker had been loaded and was under way with a cargo of the first oil from the lost fields of the Sinai to head for Suez in eight years. TIME'S Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn was at Ras Sudr when the oil to Egypt started flowing. His report...
...which took place inside a former Israeli compound (a sign on the fence in Hebrew warned of land mines), the Egyptians beamingly approved of the Americans' work. "You have done a great job," said Hilal. "We hope we will see you again in Egypt." Answered Mobil's Cairo manager Ross Sawtelle on behalf of his crewmen: "They have drunk of the water of the Nile and that means they will return...
...been considering construction of a $60 million diesel-engine plant in Egypt, and eleven foreign companies, seven of them American, have been talking about some kind of partnership with Nasr, Egypt's No. 1 automaker. No fewer than 26 foreign oil companies are exploring the country; Cairo officials hope that Egypt will be producing a million barrels...
...performer who, while musing about the trajectory of the grenades he had to duck as an Italian artilleryman during World War I, conceived his famous human cannonball act; of a stroke; in San Bernardino, Calif. Using a compressed-air cannon, Zacchini made his maiden flight (some 130 ft.) in Cairo in 1922. In 1929, John Ringling lured him to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, where he performed for another 32 years...