Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could not hold back my armed forces!" shouted President Anwar Sadat on Egyptian TV, furiously pounding a desk for emphasis. "Yesterday and today they gave him a lesson he will never forget." No Egyptian needed to be told who "he" was. After four years of increasingly bitter feuding with Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Sadat last week unleashed his army and air force against Gaddafi's outgunned 30,000-man army...
...worrying. But he has stopped shooting off his mouth as if he were still in the opposition. He has stopped seeing himself as an ex-underground fighter and has begun to see himself as the leader of the nation." Even some Arabs appear to be intrigued. Says one leading Egyptian official: "Rabin and [Labor Leader Shimon] Peres tended to sit in fixed positions, stalling for time and keeping the diplomatic front frozen. Begin seems to like a war of movement, probing and feinting, feeling out the other side's strength. Frankly, we prefer that...
...stunning departure from tradition, Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry, whose country used to be a Moscow ally, attacked Soviet intervention in Africa. He thundered: "Socialist imperialism will only turn the African continent into a vast arena of conflict. We do not want to replace one imperialism with another imperialism." An Egyptian delegate agreed, warning that "the only issue that really matters here is that of Soviet interference in Africa." The conference subsequently adopted a Senegal-proposed resolution that requested OAU members not to seek "foreign intervention," nor to allow their territory to be used as a "base of aggression" against another...
Directed by a self-styled "Commander of the Faithful" named Shukri Ahmed Moustafa, the society consists of perhaps 500 youths. Three years ago, in a clumsy attempt to overthrow Sadat's "atheistic" regime, Moustafa's followers attacked the Egyptian Technical Military Academy at Heliopolis and provoked a battle with guards in which eleven people died and 27 were wounded. A year later townsmen of the Nile Valley village of Minya complained that the group was brainwashing their daughters and carrying them off as concubines. One young girl was even persuaded by the group to commit suicide...
Smith, a youthful farmhand, reported that an angel named Moroni had showed him some golden tablets that had been buried near Palmyra, N.Y. The tablets were in an unknown language, "reformed Egyptian hieroglyphics," and Smith could read them only by peering through two miraculous stones* that the angel gave him. The 522-page Book of Mormon declares that the New World's Indians were actually Jews who sailed from the Near East in the 6th century B.C., and that they were later visited by Jesus Christ after his resurrection...