Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some Middle East observers suggest that Sadat badly needs a lift right now. He has just about exhausted the political popularity that he accumulated in the October war and as a result of the disengagement negotiations that put Egyptian troops back on the east bank of the canal last year. There are considerable signs of unrest in Egypt. Workers rioted briefly in January and again in March to protest rising prices and food shortages, and students also demonstrated...
...addition to trying to improve the economy, Sadat has also strengthened his ties with Egypt's 700,000-man armed forces. He eased Vice President Hussein Shafei out of his job and gave it to Air Marshal Hosni Mobarak, 47, head of the Egyptian air force. Mobarak has two attributes that please Sadat: he is deferential to the President, and he is hostile to the Russians as a result of some unhappy contacts with their officers. "Mobarak doesn't just dislike the Russians," says a friend. "He detests them...
...army but Egypt's affluent landowners and its urban upper-middle class; though those groups total fewer than 2 million people, or one-twentieth of the population, they dominate the country. When Sadat was Vice President, Nasser mocked him as "old Goha," after a legendary fall guy in Egyptian folk humor. He insisted that "Sadat's greatest ambition is to own a big automobile and have the government pay for the gasoline." But on his own, old Goha turned out to be perhaps a shrewder politician than Nasser, and one of his most astute moves was to proclaim...
...informal party groupings to develop. Although the assembly debates legislation and occasionally calls government officials to task, it is the President who makes the decisions that count. He carried on negotiations with Henry Kissinger largely in camera, and Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy, who sat in, is the only other Egyptian who knows all that went...
Since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the 101-mile-long canal has been little more than a fortified ditch. The Israeli pullback into the Sinai in the aftermath of the October 1973 war still leaves it open to easy attack. But with both banks now under Egyptian control. President Anwar Sadat gambled that he could open it again. To underscore his seriousness, Sadat also approved a $10 billion five-year plan to rebuild the ruined cities along the canal's banks and construct new airports, rail lines and communications facilities in the area...