Word: mubarak
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...Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak...
...heard it for years: 'Don't let the cradle of civilization be its grave.' Well, now the threat is true. A Middle East war could never be contained." The moderate Arabs to whom Nixon talked liked Egypt's new President, Hosni Mubarak, better than Sadat, Nixon found. But it is vital, he argues, that the U.S. should push ahead with the Camp David peace plan, that the Palestine Liberation Organization must recognize Israel's right to exist ("That can happen") and that this country "not allow a vacuum to be left on the Palestinian issue...
...Mubarak picks up the reins
...surface, at least, Cairo was getting back to normal, as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak settled into his second week in office since the assassination of Anwar Sadat. Following the detention of suspected Muslim radicals, said by the government to number 350 but unofficially estimated at 1,500, Egypt's universities reopened without incident. Troops continued to guard government offices and other public buildings, but there was no repetition of the strife that broke out in the southern Egyptian city of Asyut two days after Sadat's death...
...Mubarak ordered his government to launch an attack on the economic malaise that many analysts consider to be the main cause of the discontent that threatens his regime. He got a big assist from Washington: a pledge to provide some $275 million for the purchase of 1.5 million metric tons of wheat and flour. It is the largest sum given any country under the U.S. "Food for Peace" program...