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...killed and 719 injured, roughly three times the number originally reported. The riots' apparent cause: discontent of police conscripts, angry over poor pay and living conditions, who were soon joined by Fundamentalist agitators. The mutiny was quickly put down. In the short term, the government of President Hosni Mubarak was not seriously damaged by the ordeal. But with the country's economy a shambles, any new government austerity measures could provoke another explosion of rioting by the urban poor that not even the disciplined and professional Egyptian army would be able to contain...
...lengthen their low-paying tour of duty, abandoned their barracks and took to the streets. For the next two days, mobs of civilian troublemakers and looters, including Muslim fundamentalists and leftist students, joined the rioting policemen. It was the most serious domestic unrest to confront Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak since he took office after Sadat's assassination in 1981. The official toll: at least 36 people killed and 321 injured...
...violent outburst was a sobering reminder of the potentially volatile problems that Mubarak faces. Over the past 4 1/2 years, he has enjoyed moderate success with his foreign policy initiatives, most notably raising Egypt's status in the Arab world, which had shunned the country after Sadat signed the 1979 peace treaty with Israel. But he has been less successful at home. Egypt's already shaky economy continues to suffer setbacks. Even before hotels were attacked last week, the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro last October and other terrorist incidents in the region had caused a severe drop...
...leading to the ancient monuments. At least two police stations were burned down. Renegade policemen also set free more than 300 of the 5,000 inmates at the Tura Prison south of Cairo. Among those liberated were scores of Islamic fundamentalists and other political prisoners who have opposed the Mubarak government. Other rebellious police, joined by gangs of civilian rioters, marched through the streets of suburban Maadi, where many diplomats and other foreign nationals live, burning cars and looting shops. Unrest also flared in the cities of Asyut and Sohag, some 200 miles south of Cairo...
...Mubarak, the latest hijacking came at an awkward time. Only seven weeks earlier, the President's response to the terrorist seizure of the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro had been criticized as indecisive, even duplicitous, and had strained Egypt's relations with the U.S. After the hijacking crisis in Malta, Mubarak is considered less likely than ever to risk the unpopular economic reforms that the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund have been urging upon him for the past year. The IMF wants Egypt to reduce its projected budget deficit of $1.3 billion for this year by drastically cutting subsidies...