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...Sadat functions as if Egypt were one big Mit Abu el Kom and he the great 'umda. Sadat has pretty much neutralized the once-mighty Arab Socialist Union, which Nasser established as Egypt's only political party. He uses the A.S.U. only as a sounding board of grass roots opinion; membership is no longer mandatory for representatives sitting in the People's Assembly, Egypt's parliament, and Sadat has allowed small, informal party groupings to develop. Although the assembly debates legislation and occasionally calls government officials to task, it is the President who makes the decisions...
...well-tempered bustle moved me right along, past the village's new school--the sort of whitewashed adobe place where you could see the kids standing in the doorways being casual. The municipal stadium was next door--a five-foot-high grass-covered embankment keeping the soccer field from running out into the market, the center of things, where I was going...
...were adequate. But those at Asan were squalid and run-down-and in fact had been condemned a short time before the refugees arrived. At first, four people were forced to share a single blanket on a cold stone floor; few, if any, were issued mattresses or pillows. The grass outside was littered with filth, and water dripped through many of the hallway ceilings. Toilet facilities were primitive and overcrowded...
Gerry Ford is a grass roots politician, blessed with a zest for boring speeches and stupid occasions that would make a Brooklyn borough president proud. But Ford also has a clear conception of himself, and an unequivocal conviction that the country should be run for those people, like himself, who can scramble to the top. "Ford has a gyroscope in his gut that keeps him pointed towards the accepted platitudes of his class, race and milieu." Chilton Williamson Jr. wrote in The Nation...
...suppose that if you consider Master Derby then you have to make note of Honey Mark, who closed strongly down the stretch of the Blue Grass but ran out of running room. Add an eighth of a mile, and the horse could be an upsetter, but it's doubtful...