Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Phoenician traders and Egyptian miners became part of the Wabanaki tribe in New England, Fell says, and the script used by an Algonquin tribe, the Micmacs, is derived directly from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Fell says there is an inscription on Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine that reads (in Celtic Ogam) "Cargo platform for ships from Phoenecia...
...involved in Lebanon's civil war -and on the losing side. Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are privately pressuring the P.L.O. to end the fight against Israel and to accept the West Bank-Gaza state. Hussein figures prominently in these arguments. Last month he was in Aswan at Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's invitation to discuss the proposed linkage with the Palestinians, and before that in Damascus for similar talks with President Hafez Assad. Says one political observer in Amman: "The moderates want Hussein to 'leash' the West Bank to keep it from becoming too radical...
...unrest upset the battered Egyptian economy-the root of the trouble -even more. While other Arab nations prosper on oil, Egypt is too poor-and too overpopulated-to help itself. Foreign investment has been frightened off by uncertainty or, as in the case of a proposed $150 million Ford Motors plant, wiped out by the Arab boycott. Agriculture is so feeble that Egypt must import two-thirds of its food at a cost of $1.5 billion a year. Government foreign currency reserves are dwindling as world food prices rise, while the standing army of 850,000 men consumes a third...
...true champion in his 60s who still gets the girl," gloats Elizabeth Ashley. At 37, she is playing a 16-year-old Cleopatra to Harrison's 50-year-old Caesar in the G.B. Shaw play at Washington's Kennedy Center. Ashley is delighted with her jewel-studded Egyptian robes, "the most breathtaking drag I've ever had on." For her sequined eye makeup she got some tips from another Cleopatra: Elizabeth...
Taylor, who starred with Rex Harrison and Richard Burton in the 1963 screen version that cost $41 million but brought in considerably less at the box office. While the two Cleos were seated together at an Inaugural dinner party last week, Taylor took a fork and outlined the Egyptian's eyes on the tablecloth. "I've since tried her tricks," says Ashley. "And they work...