Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pull down the surrounding fence. The radicals denounced Arafat and his followers as stooges for Israel and vowed revenge. During a funeral procession for one of the fallen, a mourner took up an increasingly popular chant, "O Arafat, O Arafat, the Jihad killed Sadat," a reference to the Egyptian leader assassinated by fundamentalists...
...ruins. Foreign aid donors refuse to hand over significant funds until Arafat creates a credible system of accounting for the money. Israel, in response to the violence, has limited the number of workers allowed to cross the border daily for work. Just days before the Gaza riots, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned that the Gaza Strip would become "a new, tougher Afghanistan" unless economic conditions improved immediately...
Blazing oil borne by floodwaters swept into an Egyptian town, killing some 500 people, many of them incinerated as they slept. Survivors "thought it was the Day of Judgment," according to one witness who saw "a wave of people running toward the mosque screaming 'There is only one God!' " The conflagration in Durunka, located 213 miles south of Cairo, was ignited when government oil- storage tanks ruptured and spilled their inflammable contents...
...river of burning oil slicks that swept through the southern Egyptian town of Durunka has burned or drowned at least 478 people, including about 220 whose bodies remain buried under charred rubble. The disaster began when a train carrying oil derailed Wednesday and flood waters carried the fuel ignited by electric wires into the town of 22,000. Survivors spent much of the day criticizing the government for building an oil storage depot so near their homes; later, Egyptian Prime Minister Atef Sedki arrived, promising 500 Egyptian pounds ($150) to families of the dead and 25 pounds ($7.50) per displaced...
...Iowa and Michigan this week, as first scheduled, the TV cameras will shoot some better visuals. Clinton witnessing the signing of a peace treaty in a cleared minefield on the Israeli-Jordanian border. Addressing, separately, the Jordanian and Israeli parliaments. Visiting U.S. troops in Kuwait. Hobnobbing in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat, in Saudi Arabia with King Fahd and in Damascus with Syrian President Hafez Assad. Looking very presidential throughout, no doubt, and maybe winning more votes for Democratic candidates than he could have by campaigning at home...