Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fairness, Drury must have spent at least half an hour revising the plot of his past novels to fit this new setting. Gone is the Russian threat to destroy democracy that occupied center stage in his innumerable previous efforts. In its place he has contrived a threat to the Egyptian royal dynasty, stemming from the machinations of a priestly cult bent on weakening the Pharaoh and aggrandizing a mysterious golden idol. But lest his fans grow confused at this radical turn of events, he has obligingly included the familiar signposts that dot his other works: the danger of growing unrest...
Ahmed, currently director of the Arab League on Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, has written several books including "The Intellectual Origins of Egyptian Nationalism...
...public declaration from Washington last week that such activity is illegal, Israel is determinedly searching for oil to replace what it lost a year ago when the Abu Rudeis fields to the north were handed back to Egypt. Exploration has already led to conflicts, since other oil teams under Egyptian contracts are also working there. Israeli naval crews last fall shot at equipment owned by Amoco to keep that American company from working in the Gulf of Suez just off El Tur. Then in December, Israel set up its own costly offshore drilling rig, manned mainly by American roughnecks...
...this last question that brought the most startling and encouraging response. With the approval of Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat told Vance that his country now favors "an official link between the Palestinian state and Jordan-even before Geneva [talks] start." This link, Sadat explained, could be "some sort of confederation." The proposal was highly significant for various reasons. Arafat's apparent concurrence probably signals that he is now prepared to mend his bitter, six-year-old rift with Jordan's King Hussein; if so, this would remove one of the Middle East...
...dialogue and openness between us and the world. We are practicing the dialogue of cooperation by deeds and words alike in the area of economic and technological development. A pattern of triangular relations between advanced technology in cooperation with the capital of oil-producing countries is helping the Egyptian people to build a sound and dynamic system that can cope with the economic challenge...