Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West Wing, offices were piled high with boxes-more than 100 cartons in the Situation Room alone-but Ford tried to give the appearance of carrying on business as usual. On his last full day in power, he telephoned Senators, Congressmen, old friends and several foreign leaders: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Soviet Communist Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev...
...hour rampage. "Dismayed and distraught," Sadat hurried back to the capital from his winter home at Aswan and ordered troops to back up his besieged riot police. For one of the few times in his six-year administration, Sadat was apparently stunned and frightened by the violence of the Egyptian masses. On the drive from a helicopter pad to his office, his swift-moving convoy was guarded by three select commando battalions and two armored units from the Egyptian army. Cairo's streets were swept clean for the move, a rare decision for a President...
Gauger followed the marchers to nearby Tahrir Square, the vast downtown center of Cairo near the Nile Hilton and the Egyptian Museum. "From other roads," she reported, "appeared still more demonstrators, converging on the People's Assembly. Now the protesters were no longer chanting slogans; instead, there came defiant cries from the mobs, the sharp crackle of breaking glass and finally the bark of tear-gas guns and rifle fire." Before Gauger got safely home that night, Cairo's flying squads of riot police with their Plexiglas face masks, shields and staves were in control. The last...
...When Egyptian Strongman Gamal Abdel Nasser seized the Suez Canal in July 1956, Eden concluded that strong action was necessary to keep open what he regarded as the life line linking Britain to its Asian and East African colonies. He thus backed a joint British, French and Israeli invasion of Egypt in October. World opinion was outraged, as were many Britons; Washington was furious that it had not been consulted, while the Soviets threatened to send "volunteers" to help the Egyptians. Because of international pressure, the invading forces pulled out 21 days later. To escape blistering criticism, Eden...
...Archaeoastronomy -astromythology: Stonehenge, Mayan and Egyptian pyramids...