Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When Anwar Sadat talks to an American leader, he talks of peace. When he talks to Brezhnev, he talks war." So said an Egyptian official, as he looked ahead to the long-scheduled mid-January visit to Cairo of Soviet Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Last week it appeared that the Egyptian President still preferred to talk peace rather than talk war on Russian terms. After a flurry of Egyptian and Soviet diplomatic activity, Brezhnev postponed indefinitely his state visits to Egypt, Syria and Iraq. In light of the Soviet Union's unmistakable desire to increase its influence...
...Middle East is "a time bomb that unless defused, would explode," recently warned Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. That explosion could take the form of a war of attrition or burst into a full-scale conflict. Fearful of the Arabs' growing military strength, the Israelis might decide to launch a pre-emptive strike. Or the Arabs might attack if they become frustrated by the failures of diplomacy to get Israel to relinquish territory occupied in 1967 and grant some of the Palestinian demands. The most critical time will be late spring, when the weather is right for military operations...
Died. Ahmad Ismail Ali, 57, Egyptian Minister of War and military commander who planned the 1973 Arab assaults at Suez and on the Golan Heights; of cancer; in London. A World War II veteran who saw action with the British Eighth Army against Rommel's Afrika Korps, Ismail fought in the 1948, 1956 and 1967 wars against Israel. As Arab commander in chief, he put in 20-hour days during 1973, planning the autumn strike. When the Syrian and Egyptian assaults came on the afternoon of Yom Kippur, Ismail's use of water cannon to erode the sand...
...Police, the victory meant revenge of Harvard's victory the Monday before at Luxor, and a share of the regatta championship as both crews ended up with 1-1 records. Cambridge, Cairo University, Oxford and Yale rounded out the field for the festival sponsored by the Egyptian Rowing Federation...
This was the fourth time in five years that the festival was held on the Nile, but the Egyptian crews had never won a race. The victory over Harvard was definitely a high point for the Police crew, which came into international attention when it competed at Henley...