Word: ramadan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unprecedented coolness and masterly deception. There had been rumors and intelligence reports of troops massing, but in the week before the attack all was calm; some soldiers, in fact, were demobilized to give the impression that fighting was not imminent. The period of Ramadan had begun, and President Sadat declared publicly that the authorities should see to it that the special foods for the season were available in abundant supply; at the time it sounded like the political gesture of a weak government rather than a call to arms...
...Moslems as well as Jews, the war had religious overtones. It came during Ramadan, the holy month of dawn-to-dusk fasting when, it is said, warriors who die in a jihad go immediately to heaven. In Cairo, Moslem scholars formally declared the fight a holy...
...King David Hotel, where the Africans took over 82 rooms, flowers in the national colors of each state were sent to the presidential suites, and breakfasts were served at 3:30 a.m. for Ahidjo and other Moslems in the group because they were observing the holy month of Ramadan, which requires fasting during daylight. Mrs. Meir, for the first time in Israel's history, ordered the entire Cabinet to abandon its sports-shirt informality and don black ties for a dinner in the visitors' honor...
THROUGHOUT the Middle East this week, devout Moslems are beginning the annual observance of Ramadan, the month of sunup-to-sundown fasting. This year Ramadan coincides with a possibly more momentous date. Five days after the fast begins, the 90-day cease-fire between Egypt and Israel is scheduled to end. Most likely the truce will continue, but on a de facto basis and not by a formal extension of the original cease-fire arranged by U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers...