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...military-hospital clerk in the Nile Delta, Sadat for much of his political life had seemed to be not much more than a devoted epigone of Egypt's beloved leader. In fact, he was somewhat the more impetuous and strong-headed of the two. During World War II, for instance, Sadat was jailed as a political subversive after the failure of two absurdly bungled plots to smuggle a former Egyptian general over to the Germans. First a getaway car broke down, then an escape plane crashed on takeoff. Along with two Nazi spies who were his accomplices, Sadat...
...national educational fraternity, Phi Delta Kappa, formally expelled the Harvard chapter at its convention this week after the chapter's long fight to admit women to the fraternity...
...said that the contradictory action of Phi Delta Kappa was "a purely political move to preserve the organization for the men who head...
Ahead of the field headquarters was flat and absolutely barren terrain interrupted at the horizon with moonscape ridges. In the distance, Israeli tank formations rolled across the windless desert, raising long trails of stagnant dust. Helicopters with dangling cargoes fluttered back and forth. High overhead, delta-winged jets streaked toward the west, and to the north, the tree-shaped smoke of shellbursts rose from a ridge...
Moseby, last year an assistant dean at the Ed School and currently director of student teaching at Simmons College, said that the Phi Delta Kappa's executive board suspended the Harvard society in January 1973 when Harvard submitted the names of several women for membership. The international board informed Harvard that its chapter would be expelled if it did not conform to the male-only policy...