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Sadat's program hardly touched the lives of Egypt's poverty-stricken masses. Mokhtar Younis, 54, is a baggage porter at the Cairo railroad station and lives in a nearby slum. He is able to get work only about 15 days a month, for which he receives a monthly take-home pay of about $14. He and his wife Ne'mat, 28, live with their eleven children in a single room that measures just...
...Mokhtar's large family, like millions of others, survives only because of price subsidies that keep down the cost of seven basic products: wheat, flour, sugar, rice, tea, vegetable oil and butane gas, which is used for cooking...