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...streets were hung with political posters and multicolored banners, and noisy crowds gathered for campaign speeches. But when 12.7 million Egyptians went to the polls last week, only one candidate was on the ballot, President Hosni Mubarak, and he was approved for a new six-year term with 97% of the vote...
Among the book's other disclosures: Bashir Gemayel, the Christian leader assassinated after being elected President of Lebanon in 1982, had been on the CIA payroll for years; the agency monitored Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's phone conversations during the Achille Lauro crisis; and Argentine officials supplied intelligence data to the CIA during the Falklands war, information that was passed along to Britain, Argentina's enemy in the conflict. Woodward relates that a suspect being interrogated for the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Lebanon died after being tortured by a CIA officer with an electroshock device. (The officer...
Snarled traffic, polluted air and horn-honking cacophony have long frayed the nerves of Cairo's roughly 12 million residents and 1 million annual visitors. Much of the capital's legendary congestion may finally be relieved this week, when Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak officially opens Cairo's first subway service. Five years and $1 billion in the making, the 17-mile, six-station ( system is the first phase of a projected 25-mile line that will ultimately transport 1 million passengers...
...Mubarak, accompanied by French Premier Jacques Chirac, will descend polished red granite steps at Tahrir Square for the inaugural ride. Inside the station, walls of cream-colored marble form the backdrop to ceramic designs depicting ancient Egyptian scenes. Replicas of pharaonic statues are displayed in glass cases, adding local luster to what French Engineer Alain Chenebier proudly calls "one of the most beautiful subway systems ever...
...period when U.S. foreign policy has been damaged by failures in Lebanon and disclosures about secret arms sales to Iran, the Soviets have adopted flexible and imaginative new strategies, and the results are already perceptible. Typical of the changing scene are some recent comments by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, whose country has received nearly $20 billion in U.S. aid since 1975. When asked by a Saudi magazine about Egypt's relations with the U.S., Mubarak described them as "normal." But when asked about his country's relations with the Soviet Union, which had been practically nonexistent in the 1970s...