Word: mokattam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allowed into the complexes without permission. Residents of the fashionable Cairo suburb of Mo-kattam are not permitted to bring guests home because some callers might be spies who would notice the nearby missile site's 65-ft. "Squat Eye" tower, so nicknamed by NATO. Similarly, the Mokattam Casino, from which the view was too clear, has been moved lock, stock and roulette table to the Nile Hilton Hotel, from which no missiles can be visible...
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