Word: gumliouriya
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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Available and Harmless. Critics could scarcely be blamed for underestimating Nasser's successor. Until Sadat became President, his chief accomplishment, other than his role in the 1952 officers' revolt that brought Nasser to power, was his survival. A former colonel, he edited the official newspaper Al Gumliouriya for a time and served as speaker of Nasser's rubber-stamp National Assembly. He lived quietly with his second wife Gehan, their three daughters and a son inevitably named Gamal (there are three older daughters, all married to army officers, by a first marriage that ended in divorce...
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