Word: giza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...execute him unless the government paid $300,000 and released 60 of their comrades from jail. Even while the government negotiated, the kidnapers last week carried out their threat. Three days after the sheik's disappearance, his body was discovered in a house near the pyramids at Giza. He had been tortured, strangled and shot through...
...ready when Kissinger's 707 landed in Cairo. President Sadat extended a graceful welcome to "my friend Dr. Kissinger." Ailing with influenza, Sadat had risen from a sickbed to greet the Secretary, and his words could scarcely be heard at a press conference following their discussions at Giza Residence...
...complete works of Zane Grey; his favorite author, he once said, was Lloyd C. Douglas (The Robe), whose novels he discovered while he was in prison. He lives with his attractive, half-British second wife, Gehan, and their four children in a comfortable house at Giza, a Cairo suburb...
After three days in Cairo last week consulting on Middle East peace with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home sounded an optimistic note. Douglas-Home, who had taken time out to don Arab robes and ride a camel while visiting the pyramids at Giza, reported that his hosts were "in a mood for permanent peace." Sir Alec had hardly spoken, however, when Egypt and Israel started shooting at each other in the most serious exchange since a fragile cease-fire was arranged along the Suez Canal 13 months...
Like some pharaoh of a technocratic dynasty, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat last week celebrated the completion of a project 17 times larger than Cheops' Pyramid at Giza. Grasping a pair of ceremonial shears, Sadat snipped a bright green ribbon to dedicate El Sadd El AH, the Aswan High Dam on the Upper Nile. As he did, a band played, young girls released flocks of doves, and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny spoke one word of Arabic: "Mabrouk [Congratulations...