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Gauger followed the marchers to nearby Tahrir Square, the vast downtown center of Cairo near the Nile Hilton and the Egyptian Museum. "From other roads," she reported, "appeared still more demonstrators, converging on the People's Assembly. Now the protesters were no longer chanting slogans; instead, there came defiant cries from the mobs, the sharp crackle of breaking glass and finally the bark of tear-gas guns and rifle fire." Before Gauger got safely home that night, Cairo's flying squads of riot police with their Plexiglas face masks, shields and staves were in control. The last...
...They asked him to come to headquarters for a routine identity check. He did so without protest. Four days later the suspect was released-thereby touching off one of the most explosive international brouhahas in years. The affair triggered political repercussions from the Quai d'Orsay to the Nile, raised storms of outrage in Jerusalem and Bonn, severely embarrassed the government of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and touched off outcries against the cynical expediency of French justice...
With sightseeing as its top priority and rowing as a secondary concern, the Harvard heavyweight varsity crew team spent a victory-less Christmas vacation at the Festival of the Nile races in Egypt...
...second race, held December 26 on the Nile River, resulted in a win for the University of Paris, with Harvard trailing behind in third place...
Neither of the heavyweight, captains participated in the Nile races because they had rowed in the testival previously...