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...lying near the surface of the statue. When the salts crystallize again, they crack pores within the stone. In recent years, scientists agree, the salt damage has been accelerated by the Aswan High Dam, more than 400 miles upriver. The new dam has raised the water table throughout the Nile Valley. Another villain has been the high-salt mortar used to restore the flaking monument. "Walking on top of the Sphinx in the morning," says Gauri, "you can hear the stones popping like potato chips...
...Gucci tastes in smart boutiques. Foreign banks and trading companies compete for expensive floor space in new high-rise office buildings. Yet near by, millions of lower-and middle-class residents crowd ramshackle dwellings in fetid slums, and millions of fellahin till fields of wheat and rice in the Nile Delta as seasonal workers for $2 a day. In Egypt, a patina of superficial prosperity gilds a fragile economic core. The revenues from new trade policies and foreign investment are flowing to an all too visible superclass of the very rich. But at the same time, the great mass...
...plotters were well financed and well armed. One ringleader of the group, Abboud Zomor, an ex-army major who deserted, was said to have plotted several ways of killing Sadat. He considered shooting the President at his rest house in the Nile Delta. He also thought of exploding a truckload of butane gas on a Cairo street as Sadat drove...
While some men cursed the darkness, Sadat lit a candle that continues to light up the world. Jean Nile Harwell New York City...
...government's probe of Sadat's assassination continued to unearth new details about Egypt's shadowy underground terrorist network. Nearly a month before the murder, agents had uncovered a plot to kill Sadat in the Nile delta town of Mansura. Sadat had actually been shown video and sound recordings of armed members of Islamic extremist groups who were plotting his assassination, but gave the matter little thought. Mubarak himself added more details about the conspiracy against Sadat. The objective of the killers, he said, was to "physically liquidate" all of Egypt's top military, religious...