Word: hosni
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, Peres and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak held a two-day summit in Alexandria, Egypt. They agreed Friday to form a preparatory committee for convening an international peace conference...
...undermine the Helsinki talks to deny Peres a foreign policy triumph. Hence, they say, Shamir pushed hard to put Soviet Jewry on the agenda. But if Shamir upstaged Peres in Helsinki, Peres played an impressive card of his own: on Thursday he announced he would meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak next month to warm up the cold peace between Cairo and Jerusalem. Mubarak has not yet confirmed the engagement...
...agenda when Vice President George Bush sat down last week with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was an urgent request that the U.S. help alleviate Egypt's burgeoning economic problems. Bush, who was winding up a three-nation Middle East tour, demurred. Pleading that he "didn't come here to cry poor mouth," the Vice President nonetheless declared that the U.S. was "facing very difficult budgetary times" and could not guarantee an increase of its $2.2 billion in annual aid to Cairo. But he did promise to discuss Egypt's needs with President Reagan. Said Bush: "A stable Egypt is vitally...
...dinner with the King and his American-born wife, Queen Noor. Said a Bush aide: "They got along like back-porch neighbors." After a sojourn at the King's palace on the Gulf of Aqaba, Bush was scheduled to go on to Cairo for talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak...
...toll: 107 killed and 719 injured, roughly three times the number originally reported. The riots' apparent cause: discontent of police conscripts, angry over poor pay and living conditions, who were soon joined by Fundamentalist agitators. The mutiny was quickly put down. In the short term, the government of President Hosni Mubarak was not seriously damaged by the ordeal. But with the country's economy a shambles, any new government austerity measures could provoke another explosion of rioting by the urban poor that not even the disciplined and professional Egyptian army would be able to contain...