Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What did these visitors look like? In spired by ancient Assyrian, Babylonian and Egyptian illustrations of fishtailed gods, Temple speculates that Siriusians were probably amphibious-"a kind of cross between a man and a dolphin...
Heavy Pressure. As the interminable warfare continued, the Egyptian and Syrian Prime Ministers met in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to try to at least paper over the feud that has strained relations between their two countries since Egypt signed the interim Sinai agreement with Israel last September. The quarrel over the Sinai forced Egypt and Syria into somewhat artificial opposition over Lebanon. After the Syrian intervention, it ironically appeared that...
...both feuding countries, Egypt and Syria now seemed ready to patch up their differences. The Prime Ministers agreed to stop hostile propaganda against each other, to resume full diplomatic relations, to form a joint commission for working out a strategy toward Israel, and to arrange a summit conference between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Syria's Hafez Assad...
Egypt too denounced Assad, thus further chilling the already frigid relations between Cairo and Damascus. In a letter to the Arab League, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy accused Syria of preparing "bloody butcheries that are in reality a war of genocide." Fahmy, like Jumblatt and the P.L.O., called for joint action by other Arab states to get Syrian troops out of Lebanon. In Cairo, Arab students protesting the intervention occupied the Syrian embassy for three hours; in Moscow, Arabs demonstrated in front of the Syrian mission...
...substantial all the same. American aid to Sadat is now approaching $1 billion a year-including provisions for military supplies-and there is the expectation of more to come. Aid has been tied to an implied American promise to secure a peace settlement; never, as a result, has an Egyptian leader been so dependent...