Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sadat still faces hazards. One is that by relaxing state controls he may transform Egyptian life more than he intends. Says one critic: "How can you have freedom for foreign capital without freedom for local capital? How can you give freedom to the capitalist without giving freedom to the trade unions?" Regionally, Sadat's new friendship with Washington is fine as long as Israel continues to withdraw from Egyptian territory. But if the Israelis balk, Sadat at future Arab councils is likely to find himself the target rather than the central force...
...stylish dresser known for her well-tailored trouser suits and gowns, Mrs. Sadat is half English. Her Egyptian father and British mother met and married while he was in London studying medicine. Jehan first met Sadat on her 15th birthday when he was 30 and an army captain. They were wed after Sadat's first marriage, an arranged match with a cousin, ended...
Anwar Sadat's only rival for popularity among Egyptians these days is a safe and sure ally: his wife Jehan Sadat, 40, a comely woman with dark brown hair and eyes and a fetching smile. Scarcely a year ago, students demonstrating against the regime covered Cairo walls with insults directed at her, the largely unknown First Lady. But since the October War, when Mrs. Sadat spent highly publicized 20-hour days visiting troops, touring hospitals and working as a bandage roller with the Egyptian Red Crescent, she has won over even these youthful critics. Civilians as well as soldiers...
Friends of the First Lady insist, however, that her most important contribution to Egyptian life has not been in building up wartime morale but in raising the peacetime stature of women. "Many changes have come to Egypt under Sadat," says one, "but Jehan is the greatest change of all." Mrs. Sadat has become the symbol of a special kind of women's lib adapted to a country where women are still generally held down. Without upsetting the traditional male role as family head, Mrs. Sadat has persistently worked for greater rights for women. Among other things, her husband recently...
...Sadat pointedly occupied a central seat at a tumultuous meeting in Cairo last year, where Egyptian women confronted Libya's Muammar Gaddafi to rebut his arguments for political union between the two countries. If Gaddafi imposed his fundamentalist Islamic views on such a merger, they shouted scornfully, it would force them all back to the harem, and they refused...