Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strained relations were between Egypt and Russia. In terms clearer than ever before, Sadat announced that Egypt would no longer depend solely for arms on Moscow as it has done for nearly 20 years. The Soviets, said Sadat, had not been generous with their arms after the war. Indeed, Egyptian aircraft losses have still not been made up by the Russians; tank replacements have come from Yugoslavia and Algeria. Henceforth, Egypt would shop around. Said Sadat,"I have taken a decision in agreement with our armed forces that we should have diversified sources of arms. This decision has been...
...result, the set-up of the museum is insane. The most often-heard comment there is "Where did she get all this junk?" Japanese screens crowd the back staircases. Roman sarcophagi mix with Buddhist shrines, are surmounted by Venetian balconies and bordered by Egyptian owls. That portrait of her husband confronts a Botticelli--when Mrs. Gardner bought that painting, the Prince who smuggled it out of Italy almost landed in jail. Her Manets are grouped in one tiny, overcrowded room where they compete with William James's portrait of his literary brother, while an entire long hall is given over...
...expected tributes flooded in from all over the globe. President Richard Nixon called him "a man of vision, constraint, consistency and enormous strength of character." Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev praised him as "an outstanding statesman who commanded great respect in the Soviet Union." Egyptian President Anwar Sadat remembered him as a man who "proved by word and deed that he was a great friend of the Arab world." In his native France, boulevards and schools were already being named...
Most experts, however, doubted that Syria would attack Israel unless Egypt also resumed hostilities-and judging from a speech President Anwar Sadat made before Egyptian students last week, that seemed unlikely. Nonetheless, as Jews began celebrating the annual Passover festival, which commemorates the flight of the Hebrews from Egypt some 3,000 years ago, Israelis were taking no chances that the Syrians would follow up the Yom Kippur War with a Passover war. Israeli forces were put on high alert. In line with what a military spokesman termed "a no-risk policy," grape juice was substituted for the obligatory Seder...
...Haggadah (literally, a "telling"), the old story would unfold: the bitter slavery under the Pharaoh and God's scourging of Egypt with plagues until the children of Israel were set free. And always, that last terrible plague, when the wrath of God slew the first-born of every Egyptian but passed over the houses of the captive Hebrews, which had been daubed with the blood of a lamb. At the end of the feast, the ancient hope would be toasted anew as the celebrants pledged reunion in the land of their fathers: "L'shanah haba-ah Birushaliyim!"-"Next...