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...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...
...planned to lengthen their low-paying tour of duty, abandoned their barracks and took to the streets. For the next two days, mobs of civilian troublemakers and looters, including Muslim fundamentalists and leftist students, joined the rioting policemen. It was the most serious domestic unrest to confront Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak since he took office after Sadat's assassination in 1981. The official toll: at least 36 people killed and 321 injured...
...land in Italy. His declaration that "there is a new patriotism alive in our country" reflected the widespread joy felt by the American public at finally getting a chance to strike back against terrorism. When reporters asked whether he had any reason to apologize to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Reagan issued a one-word reply: "Never." Richard Wirthlin, the White House pollster, told the President at midweek that his job-approval rating had hit a heartwarming...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in his interview with TIME last Saturday, revealed that he knew of the Klinghoffer murder when he dispatched the hijackers to Tunisia. But he heatedly denied that he had lied when he said, a day before they left for Tunis, that they were no longer in Egypt. They had been sent somewhere else first, he claimed, though he would not reveal where, in order to be prosecuted by the P.L.O. But when he discovered that the P.L.O. had no responsible authority to receive them, he recalled the four men to Egypt and eventually sent them...