Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Iraq or Kuwait. "It's all a bloody mess there, with people running about scared as cats on a griddle," reports Mansoor Hassan, 21, a Bangladeshi who was visiting his parents in Kuwait when the invasion started. "The Iraqis treated us like dogs and called us pigs," says an Egyptian laborer who escaped from Kuwait. "They took all my savings and even this month's pay. I have a wife and six children in Cairo, and I will have no work when I return. We will starve. But Allah be praised, I am out of Iraq...
...vacillating, foot-dragging and facile reversals that characterize the leadership of many other Arab states. His decisiveness appeals to those Arabs who dream of pan- Arab unification and worship Arab dignity. They see in Saddam a modern-day answer to the leadership vacuum opened by the death of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. They also applaud his unwavering hostility toward those whom he perceives as enemies, especially Israel. "Saddam fulfills the ambitions of the Arab people," says Ahmed al-Yaamani, a businessman who like thousands of other Jordanians, registered last week with a popular committee to fight for Iraq against...
Jack Palance CHE! His bombastic portrayal of Fidel Castro in this 1969 flop gave the movie cult status. The campy effect was heightened by the casting of Egyptian-born Omar Sharif as Che Guevara...
...Cairo last June at a water summit organized by the Washington-based Global Strategy Council, Farouk El-Baz of Boston University raised hopes among African nations when he announced that an analysis of remote sensing data has revealed unsuspected supplies of underground water in the dryest part of the Egyptian Sahara. El- Baz believes there may be twice as much water stored underground worldwide as previously assumed...
Another worry for Saddam -- surely unexpected -- was the Arab League's remarkable decision on Friday to endorse the dispatch of Arab troops to join the Saudis' defense. A day later, contingents of Egyptian and Moroccan troops were in place, prepared to fight shoulder to shoulder with the Americans against their Arab brothers, and Syrians were on the way. The Arab presence had political as well as military significance. No longer could Saddam easily cast himself as the Arab nationalist taking on the Western imperialists and their Saudi lackeys. The Arab League's move was a difficult but brave decision that...