Word: giza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lies heavy over Cairo and the rest of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egypt. The city police have changed their blue flannel uniforms to summer whites. Jacaranda trees are blooming richly purple in suburban Heliopolis, remnants of the district's lost elegance. While the triple peaks of the pyramids of Giza shimmer on the horizon, stately feluccas sail down the Nile as silently as they have done for centuries. Overhead, hawks wheel lazily in gyres. The pace of the people in their flowing gallabia robes, never very fast, has grown a step or two slower...
...alleged plotting began after Nasser, casting around for a scapegoat for his humiliating defeat, put the blame on his army and sacked 800 officers, including Amer. Holing up in his villa in the fashionable Cairo suburb of Giza, said the prosecution, Amer offered refuge to other similarly displaced officers, and more than 50 moved in. With them they brought seven truckloads of grenades, pistols, machine guns and ammunition. At one point, when government security forces tried to intercept Haridi as he went out for cigarettes, guards at the windows and doors opened up with guns, wounding two soldiers...
Amer was kept under house arrest at his villa in the fashionable Cairo sub urb of Giza, where last week some Egyptian officers came to question him further. As the Egyptians tell it, Amer apparently swallowed a "large amount of poison pills" after they arrived, but was rushed to a hospital by the officers before they could become fatal. Back home the next day, he left his guards and entered a bathroom, where he swallowed more poison pills that he had concealed beneath an adhesive plaster on his body...
...aware that increasing tourism will soon bring in about as much as tolls on the Suez Canal ($170 million), is spending $60 million on 40 new hotels, Nile River tourist boats and a Red Sea fishing resort at Ghardaka. The government now floodlights the Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza, and stagey a four-language "Sound and Light" panorama that relates the story of the Pharaohs. India is subsidizing airplane trips to the remote temples of Konarak. To ease Occidental sensitivities, Tokyo's municipal council recently allocated $560,000 for Western-style toilets in the city's older...
...greatest construction project in the history of Egypt-a nation whose ancient pyramid builders had given the art of grand construction to the world. But the Great Pyramid of Khufu* at Giza was dedicated to the sterile memory of a dead man. As Khrushchev said as he rubbernecked through Cairo last week: "Artistic standards are higher now." So are pragmatic goals...