Word: sadek
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commanded Egypt's "special forces" and later the elite commando unit that forayed across the Suez Canal into Israeli occupied territory. In 1971, in the course of President Sadat's top-level purge of the Egyptian military, he replaced Lieut. General Mohammed Sadek as Chief of Staff...
...that he promised nor a solution to the no-war, no-peace stalemate that grips the Middle East. The students, moreover, are only one of many groups who are unhappy with the situation. The army is so restless that Sadat last October relieved his outspoken War Minister, General Mohammed Sadek; no reason was ever stated but anti-Sadat army grumbling was at the root of it. Afterward there were rumors in Cairo of abortive military coups. Egyptian journalists openly agitate against censorship. In a recent incident in Alexandria, 7,000 dock workers stormed a police station to free fellow laborers...
Even more alarming was a meeting that Sadat had earlier this month with high-ranking officers of the Egyptian army. They were led by Egypt's War Minister, Lieut. General Mohammed Ahmed Sadek, a "political" general who has openly quarreled with his Soviet counterparts because they hindered his officers from entering Soviet-controlled bases and spoke of Egyptian soldiers in what Sadek considered a derogatory manner. Lieut. General Saadeddin Shazli, the chief of staff, was also there, and so, reportedly, were divisional commanders and the commander of Egypt's special-force commandos and paratroops. They demanded more freedom...
...place of the departed ministers, Sadat named a new 33-man Cabinet composed largely of "efficient young men and university professors," as the President put it. Army Chief of Staff Mohammed Sadek, who succeeded Fawzi as War Minister, prudently ordered a stepped-up alert of troops around Cairo almost as soon as the resignations were announced. "The storm is over," Sadat told Egyptians in his speech. "I have told members of the armed forces that I will mince anyone who tries to undermine our internal front...