Word: nile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enthusiastic. Complaining of fatigue to his Vice President, Hosni Mubarak, he said he wished he did not have to attend the parade. Mubarak urged him to stay at home and rest. But Sadat's sense of duty won out. He would go, and afterward, in his Nile Delta home village of Mit Abu el Kom, visit the grave of his brother Atif, a pilot killed on the first day of the October War. Dressed as Egypt's Supreme Commander in a field marshal's gold-braided blue uniform festooned with a green sash, Sadat made a traditional stop...
...December, he frightened French-speaking African countries (and angered France) by rolling his tanks into neighboring Chad, and subsequently announcing the "merger" of the two countries. He has mounted numerous coup attempts against the regime of Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri, whose country protects the lifeblood of Egypt, the Nile. Last week the Sudanese government declared that a group of foreigners arrested in Khartoum had been trained in Libya as part of another plot. Gaddafi has stockpiled $12 billion worth of mainly Soviet-supplied military equipment that some analysts fear could be the underpinning for a future Soviet rapid deployment force...
...guiding forces of Sadat's life. "I can never lose my way because I know that I have living roots in the soil of my village," he wrote in his 1978 autobiography, In Search of Identity. One of 13 children, Sadat was born on Christmas Day, 1918, in the Nile Delta village of Mit Abu el Kom. His father was a military hospital clerk, his mother an illiterate Sudanese. He spent his early years working in the fields and attending the village kuttab, an Islamic school where he learned to read and write and studied the Koran...
...added that with the Aswan liabilities have come new benefits. The collapse of the sardine industry in the Delta, for example, has been balanced by the creation of a rich new fishery in the Aswan reservoir. The Nile's increased salinity turns out to have been exaggerated; the salt level, the scientists found, is up only 10% to 15%, not yet enough to damage most crops. In fact, the greatest threat to water quality is not the dam but the growing pollution from thriving towns and farms along the now peaceable river's shore. As for schistosomiasis...
...monuments like the Temple of Karnak. It will be still more difficult to get the 100,000 Nubians displaced by the big lake to adapt to the unfamiliar life of settled farmers on newly arable lands. But even with these problems, Mancy, who first gazed lovingly on the Nile as a youth in Cairo, remains enthusiastic. "Would I build the dam again?" he asks rhetorically. "I would...