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...stirrings of emancipated women rocked Islam's elders most, for it took place in the very shadow of the mosques and chambers where the high priests of Islam hold their greatest sway. Well-to-do Egyptian women formed the Feminist National Party. Another group, Daughters of the Nile, led by smart and young (34) Doria Shafik, a philosophy graduate of the Sorbonne, signed up more than 1,000 upper-class Egyptian women. They prowl Cairo fixing politicians with the same gimlet stare on which Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt once impaled squirming U.S. Senators...
Britain's great sea pride seems to be fighting a losing battle against U.S. demands. "Mark Antony was beaten on the Nile when his attention was divided," warned the Manchester Guardian. "Britain ought to give way, even if that does mean placing the Mediterranean fleet under an American...
...undermanned British garrison of Khartoum in 1884, hacked to death its famed commander, General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon. Thirteen years later Kitchener avenged Gordon's death by smashing the dervishes at Omdurman. The Mahdi was already dead, but Kitchener ordered his tomb razed, his bones thrown into the Nile...
...Rome, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization warned of "a plague of locusts such as has not been seen in 100 years." Unless they can be quickly destroyed, a few billions of new locusts will sprout wings, eat up the grain and cotton of the Nile Vallev, the wheat and barley of Iran, the rice fields of Pakistan, and spread famine across one quarter of the world. While still wingless hoppers, the insects are easiest destroyed...
From the dismal villages of Egypt last week came statistics that tell more about what is ailing the Land of the Nile than a 9-ft. shelf of political essays...