Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Telephone Booth. Early Egyptian and Indian sufferers treated certain skin diseases with some success by swallowing a powder made from a local plant and exposing themselves to sunlight...
...short history, the event has never been open or competitive. Only Harvard, Yale, Oxford and Cambridge--certainly not the ancient entries--have been invited to race the Cairo police and two Egyptian university crews. Harvard, with a makeshift crew, has always won. Coach Harry Parker recently admitted, "It's difficult to take the racing too seriously. We have to use borrowed boats and, because it is during the winter, there is no extensive preparation...
Though Harvard's invitation comes from the Egyptian Rowing Federation, Egypt's Ministry of Tourism foots most of the bill. Crew members pay only their airfare to London. Part of a larger Nile festival, the actual racing will occupy a small part of the eight days the crew will spend in Egypt. Most of the time will be spent touring the country...
...representing Harvard, the crew lends a certain degree of respectability to the Egyptian government. And in the past, Egypt has received a lot of press concerning the event. Yet, this year, the Harvard administration chose not to confront the issue of its tacit support for Egypt...
...resume discussions between Israel and Egypt, especially since Cairo, with its economic problems, now seems more amenable to peace talks than Damascus. Toward that end, Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon will visit Washington next week. One difficulty is that Israel so far appears unwilling to agree to a key Egyptian point in these talks: the return of the Abu Rudeis oilfields, which were captured by Israeli forces in the Six-Day War and have been pumping out oil for Israel ever since...