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...that has often been an ominous indicator of the national mood. After a five-day sit-in at Cairo University, called to protest the arrest of anti-regime student leaders, 3,000 students decided to march on the capital's central square. At the university bridge over the Nile, they were halted and turned back to their campus by riot police equipped with helmets, shields, batons and tear gas. There were later protests across the city at Ain Shams University, but at week's end the government neatly nipped both demonstrations by ending the current semester ten days...
Harvard raced against an international field which included Cambridge, Oxford, the Egyptian National A and B eight's and Yale in the 2000 meter course on the Nile. The surprise of the race was a fine per forgnance by a second-place Egyptian A crew...
Harvard's heavyweight crew recovered from a poor start Sunday to gain a convincing victory over international competition in the first of two races in the Nile Festival Regatta...
...Crimson wins its second race today at Cairo, and if the Ad Board does not allow the crew to compete in next year's races, then Harvard will have to send the Nile Festival Regatta Trophy back to Egypt alone next winter...
...ARPA's major concerns has been Project Blue Nile, the defense program of weather modification as a military weapon. It is intended to put storm clouds, turbulences and tropical cyclones to useful tactical purposes...