Word: fawzi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happened to be Egypt's most prominent men-were all under house arrest or in jail last week. They included former Vice President Ali Sabry, whose dismissal by Sadat three weeks ago began the whole battle for control, as well as Gomaa and former War Minister General Mohammed Fawzi and ex-Minister for Presidential Affairs Sami Sharaf. Gomaa's intelligence chief, Major General Hassan Talaat-who is rumored to have taken notorious delight in watching suspects being tortured-was hospitalized after Sadat's Republican Guards gave him a measure of the same treatment. Most of the other...
Unlikely Survivor. The same afternoon, General Fawzi tried to enlist the tough commander of Egypt's Saiqa (Thunderbolt) Special Forces troops, Major General Mohammed Husseini Shazli, in a coup attempt. It was to have begun shortly after the joint resignations of Fawzi, Sharaf and three other ministers were to be announced on the radio news. Though Shazli was supposed to take over Cairo and arrest Sadat, in fact he did nothing. (Later, he too was rewarded, with an appointment as army chief of staff.) When the resignations were announced on the air, anti-Sadat demonstrators were expected to pour...
...place of the departed ministers, Sadat named a new 33-man Cabinet composed largely of "efficient young men and university professors," as the President put it. Army Chief of Staff Mohammed Sadek, who succeeded Fawzi as War Minister, prudently ordered a stepped-up alert of troops around Cairo almost as soon as the resignations were announced. "The storm is over," Sadat told Egyptians in his speech. "I have told members of the armed forces that I will mince anyone who tries to undermine our internal front...
...noisy critic of the President's decision to join Libya and Syria in a vague new Arab federation. Gomaa had objected to Sadat's plans for constitutional reforms to guarantee the civil liberties that the former Interior Minister had made a career of suppressing. Ex-War Minister Fawzi and most of the others had grown impatient with Sadat's search for a diplomatic solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Moscow was left without one close friend in the top Cairo leadership. Sadat, at the risk of appearing beholden to Washington in the eyes of more militant Arabs...
...They had more personal reasons as well. One of the Cabinet members who resigned is married to Gomaa's daughter, another to Gomaa's sister-in-law. The departed War Minister, Mohammed Fawzi, is a cousin of Sami Sharaf. And ex-Information Minister Mohammed Fayek is married to the niece of Ali Sabry...