Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brink of disaster. The board put Carr on leave until May 1979, when his term officially expires. This week Carr becomes a research fellow at Harvard's Center for International Affairs, and in the next academic year a visiting lecturer at Harvard Divinity School. His interim replacement: Egyptian Coptic Layman Sarwat G. Shehata, 39, a quiet management expert, who is already at work mending the many fences that Carr shattered...
Israeli and Egyptian Reactions to Sadat's Jerusalem Trip: An Eyewitness Account--Herbert C. Kelman, Phillips Brooks House parlor, 12 noon...
After landing at Larnaca, Melling pulled up to the terminal and shut off his engines. Suddenly he noticed a strange plane taxiing by. It was a C-130E with Egyptian markings. What if the hijackers saw the plane and panicked? Melling quickly distracted them. Motioning behind him toward the cabin, he shouted loudly, "What was that noise?" The two Palestinians glanced back as the Egyptian plane slid by. "It looks like trouble," whispered Melling...
...trouble soon came as the Palestinians were conducting doorway negotiations with a Cypriot intermediary. The Egyptian commando Jeep suddenly rolled across the tarmac, guns blazing. The cockpit was a storm of flying glass. Puffs of insulation fell like hail...
...Africa some 20 million years ago. But who, or what, preceded it? As far back as 1963, Simons, then at Yale, began uncovering in the wind-scoured Fayum desert region, southwest of Cairo, bones of a likely candidate: a small, fox-sized, tree-inhabiting primate, which he dubbed Aegyptopithecus (Egyptian Ape), that lived some 28 million to 30 million years ago. Returning there last fall, Simons and a colleague from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, John Fleagle, discovered the latest pieces in the jigsaw puzzle, four fragments of humeri, or upper-arm bones. Until...