Word: gamal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shorter but prices four times higher than in subsidized government stores-complained of constant increases in the cost of milk, meat and vegetables. While they suffered, the nation's remaining 10% prospered. The rich grew richer under President Anwar Sadat, who returned property sequestered by the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser and made private investment easier in a vain attempt to persuade upper-class Egyptians to put their money into productive enterprises rather than real estate, which provides better returns...
When Egyptian Strongman Gamal Abdel Nasser seized the Suez Canal in July 1956, Eden concluded that strong action was necessary to keep open what he regarded as the life line linking Britain to its Asian and East African colonies. He thus backed a joint British, French and Israeli invasion of Egypt in October. World opinion was outraged, as were many Britons; Washington was furious that it had not been consulted, while the Soviets threatened to send "volunteers" to help the Egyptians. Because of international pressure, the invading forces pulled out 21 days later. To escape blistering criticism, Eden...
...Syrian President Hafez Assad formally ended their year-long feud by announcing not only their reconciliation but also the creation of machinery for a closer alliance of their two states. No one seriously expects a return to the kind of Syrian-Egyptian union that blossomed and then failed in Gamal Abdel Nasser's day. Instead, observers interpreted the two leaders' reference to "unionist relations" to mean that they were coordinating their diplomatic drive to force Israel to the Geneva conference table early in the coming year...
...quietly delighted by Moscow's discomfort, especially because Cairo editorials likened the Soviet failure to honor the treaty to an old debacle in Egyptian-U.S. relations: the refusal by John Foster Dulles two decades ago to arm Egypt or finance the Aswan High Dam, which prompted Gamal Abdel Nasser to turn East and open Egypt to Soviet influence...
...Egypt, a member of a parliamentary committee charged that Boeing Co. had paid commissions to executives of the national airline Egyptair, which bought a total of ten 707s and eight 737s. Boeing said its business with the Egyptian airline had been transacted "properly." Nonetheless, there were reports that Gamal Erfan, chairman of Egyptair, was considering resigning...