Word: gamal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would you compare your regime with that of your predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...consensus on issues in the talks among the members of Premier Golda Meir's Cabinet. On the Egyptian end, in contrast, he essentially dealt only with President Anwar Sadat. The Egyptian President has so improved his stature since taking uncertain control of the government on the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1970 that he was able to accept or turn down every decision himself...
Heikal's fall from the top of the 100-year-old al Ahram (The Pyramids in Arabic) had important political overtones. The granite-faced Heikal rose to power because of an early friendship with President Gamal Abdel Nasser. He was the spokesman and interpreter of Nasser and the Arab socialism that the late President introduced into Egypt; even after Nasser's death and Sadat's succession, Heikal and al Ahram retained a special status and authority. But in recent months Heikal's foreign policy pronouncements began to differ from Sadat's apparent aims. For instance...
...Sadats have three teenaged daughters and a ten-year-old son, Gamal, named for the late President Nasser. In normal times their family life is close but, in Egyptian style, private. Since the war, however, the children have been in Talla because both parents have been away from home much of the time. Says Mrs. Sadat...
...Gamal Abdul Nasser's closest friends, Heykal had long been Egypt's leading theorist on anti-Israeli policy. His most important theory, articulated at the Khartoum conference of Arab states in December 1967, was the so-called two-stage strategy for destroying the Israeli state...