Word: mobarak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...request for $350 million worth of antiaircraft weaponry, including 14 batteries of Hawk missiles. In Damascus, Syria's President Hafez Assad was courteous but stiff; later Assad's Baath Party called the Sinai agreement "strange and disgraceful," and Assad pointedly refused to receive Egyptian Vice President Husny Mobarak when he appeared to explain the Egyptian view. In Israel, as she made a rare political appearance to vote for ratification at a Labor Party caucus, former Premier Golda Meir said she greeted the second-stage agreement "not with a fanfare but also not with a feeling of mourning...
...addition to trying to improve the economy, Sadat has also strengthened his ties with Egypt's 700,000-man armed forces. He eased Vice President Hussein Shafei out of his job and gave it to Air Marshal Hosni Mobarak, 47, head of the Egyptian air force. Mobarak has two attributes that please Sadat: he is deferential to the President, and he is hostile to the Russians as a result of some unhappy contacts with their officers. "Mobarak doesn't just dislike the Russians," says a friend. "He detests them...
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