Word: nile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DEATH ON THE NILE Directed by John Guillermin Screenplay by Anthony Shaffer
...ministries are now headed by civilians. Nigeria, Ghana and Sudan all have military regimes, but normal legal institutions are still working. Even in Idi Amin's Uganda, civilian courts operate, though judges ruling contrary to Big Daddy's wishes could well end up floating down the Nile...
...lavish soirées at which he flourished as raconteur and keeper of secrets, wheeler-dealer and patron of intellectuals. Sonnenberg once proclaimed: "I want my house and office to convey an impression of stability and to give myself a dimension, background and tradition that go back to the Nile...
Films: Center for Middle Eastern Studies: The Changing Middle East; Oasis in the Sahara; A Modern Egyptian Family; and The River Nile. 7:30 p.m., Science Center D. Free...
...country's modern history as a sovereign state dates only from 1922. Sadat is both a witness to many of the major events in Egypt's recent history and one of the primary figures who shaped them. Born on Christmas Day, 1918, in the Nile village of Mit Abu el Kom, he was inspired as a youth by the exploits of Kemal Atatürk, the father of modern Turkey. Sadat was twice imprisoned for his revolutionary activities-the second time, in 1946, for complicity in the murder of a former minister in King Farouk's government...