Word: nile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, however, agreed to receive him. The Shah and his entourage were met with all the trappings due a royal personage-a red carpet, a 21-gun salute, an embrace from Sadat-and were escorted to the Oberoi Hotel located on an island in the Nile near Aswan...
...only Christmas Day but also his 60th birthday, and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was in an expansive mood as he addressed his countrymen on television. True, he castigated Israeli Premier Menachem Begin for seeking to create "a greater Israel extending from the Euphrates to the Nile." But he also voiced confidence that the Middle East would not revert to the "no-war, no-peace stalemate" of recent years, and he assured, "Peace will come, sooner or later...
...members of the Harvard men's heavyweight crew who had planned on spending Christmas break in Egypt never got to make the trip, as a bureaucratic mix-up by Egyptian officials kept the team from taking part in the Nile International Regatta last month...
...first two Vance-Sadat meetings. held in the Egyptian leader's Nile resthouse at the Delta Barrage, 15 miles north of Cairo, cheered the Americans. Vance emerged from the second session reporting "good progress." He interrupted the Cairo talks for a flight to Jerusalem for the funeral of former Israeli Premier Golda Meir. Sensitive to the impropriety of conducting diplomacy at such a moment, Vance huddled only briefly over coffee in a private room at the airport with Israeli Foreign Minister Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman...
...most moving monument my heart has beat to ... We returned to Rome to prepare for our audience with the Pope. With my Jewish background, I was ill prepared ... Bogie, Ted Moore, the camera operator, the Captain and I went fishing on Lake Albert. I caught a five-pound Nile perch and threw it back, just loved catching...