Word: mansoura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frog-marched from a Mosque. The current, renewed trouble broke out at Mansoura, a delta provincial capital 75 miles northeast of Cairo, over a decree is sued by the new Education Minister, ex-Professor Murad. Its effect would be to force marginal students to repeat their grade and expel third-year students who fail twice. Probably egged on by the violent Moslem Brotherhood, some 5,000 Mansoura high school boys, aged 14 to 17, went on a rampage against the decree. They were later joined by nonstudents, who turned the demonstration into a full-dress political protest with cries...
...could they all squeeze into that small, three-bedroom villa? Yet there were Britain's Lord Harlech, three of his five children, plus a dozen or so friends, on holiday at El Mansoura, a fishing village on Tunisia's Cape Bon. At one point, there were 17 for dinner, and the kids mostly slept on air mattresses on the veranda. No matter. The nights were velvet, the days filled with swimming and trips to the village markets. Harlech spent much of his time reading and lounging around in a loose-fitting djibbah, blessedly free of reporters. When...
Through it all, the U.N. team stayed holed up in the Sea View Hotel. Both extremist groups refused to talk to the diplomats, and they made only two excursions beyond the barbed wire surrounding their hotel, one of them to the Al Mansoura detention camp in hopes of interviewing political prisoners. The prisoners jeered wildly, refused to be interviewed. Instead of fact-finding, the mission then decided to make a videotape appearance on the government television station to appeal for order and cooperation...
...poised to attack the little ten-mile-long Turkish strip of coastal villages around Man-soura (TIME, July 24). The news from Nicosia may have had nothing to do with it, but within hours the Greek Cypriots were hammering away with bazookas, mortars and machine guns. One after another, Mansoura, Alevga and Ayios Theodores fell to Makarios' men. Desperately, the Turkish Cypriots fell back to nearby Kokkina...
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