Word: kamal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...address, which had been billed as "a momentous and historic speech that will chart the odyssey of Egypt's reconstruction," Sadat announced the resignation of his Premier, Moustafa Khaki, 60, and the rest of the Cabinet. Sadat said he himself would take over as Premier, with Defense Minister Kamal Hassan Ali, 58, becoming Foreign Minister and chief negotiator in any future autonomy talks. There was no evidence of ill feeling between Sadat and Khalil. The outgoing Premier had expressed a desire to return to private life and care for his wife, who is in poor health...
...China axis. According to one knowledgeable Asian diplomat, Chinese arms aid for the Muslim rebels significantly increased after Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping's visit to Washington in January 1979. And help from other sources seems to be on the way. Last week Egyptian Defense Minister Lieut. General Kamal Hassan Ali admitted that his country was arming and training Afghan rebels. A senior White House official also confirmed that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has been providing light infantry weapons-most of Soviet design and presumably bought in third countries-to the Afghan insurgents via Pakistan since mid-January...
...Kremlin-decreed coup in Kabul. He ordered a cutback in Soviet diplomatic personnel in Cairo, severed all ties with the pro-Moscow regimes in Syria and South Yemen, and announced that Egypt would provide training camps and military assistance for the Afghan rebels. Sadat's Defense Minister, Kamal Hassan Ali, disclosed that the Egyptian and U.S. air forces had conducted joint exercises in recent weeks, to prepare for a contingency that might require the Americans to use Egypt's facilities. Among the U.S. aircraft deployed for the exercises were two E-3A Sentry AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control...