Word: gamal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government. As the founder of the Free Officers' Organization within the Egyptian army, Sadat was intimately involved in planning the military coup that overthrew the monarchy in the July Revolution of 1952. He served the new government in a variety of posts and succeeded his long time colleague Gamal Abdel Nasser as president of Egypt after Nasser's death...
...revolution, Gamal, can consume itself as well as its revolutionaries. Surely we don't want this to happen to us. Shouldn't you put an end to all this? Simply say to our colleagues, Let's act as a team; those who share our views may carry on with us. Those who seek to dictate to us (whatever their individual stands) are free...
Egypt's President Anwar Sadat still pays lip service to the economically crippling Arab socialism of Gamal Abdel Nasser. Sadat, however, has been edging toward a mixed economy by offering generous tax breaks to encourage investment by individual Egyptians and foreigners. Even Guinea's Sekou Touré, the self-styled
...course, after a brief stopover in Morocco, was Washington. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was on hand, along with the red-uniformed Marine Band, to welcome the Egyptian leader to Andrews Air Force Base late Friday afternoon. Sadat, accompanied by his elegant wife, Jihan, his 21-year-old son, Gamal, and two of his six daughters, Noha, 20, and Jihan, 17, saluted the American Secretary, then ducked into an Air Force helicopter for the hop to the South Lawn of the White House. There Jimmy Carter rushed to embrace him. In a brief statement, Sadat quickly disclosed his main concern...
...sleep that night in the house of my sister. She was only 17, but she said 'If they blow up the house, do you think we would be happy living without our father and mother?' She took her book and went upstairs to bed. My son Gamal was only 15, but he got his small bird gun and insisted on being bodyguard. 'I want to protect my father,' he said. The next day, my husband arrested all the plotters...