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...official casualty toll was 47 dead and 630 injured, and over 600 were arrested, but a true count was assumed to be higher. Curfews were imposed, and Egypt's 6 million students were sent on hasty midwinter vacations. At length, a desperate Premier Mamdouh Salem suspended the price increases that provoked the riots...
...Sadat has requested loans and aid from foreign governments. Arab oil states were prepared to advance $2 billion, and the U.S. $1 billion. In return, the contributors and the International Monetary Fund had insisted that Egypt devalue its pound and cut subsidies to conserve funds for capital investment. Premier Salem had responded that such drastic cuts would provoke violent reactions. He turned out to be right...
Brotherly Pleas. Salem claimed that Communists were responsible for the riots, but that seemed only partly right. More probably, many instigators came from the archconservative Moslem Brotherhood, which has long opposed Sadat's moderate regime...
...controversy arose at a General Electric plant in Salem, Va., where seven women filed suit in 1972, charging that GE's refusal to grant disability benefits for pregnancy discriminated against female workers and thus violated Title VII. The company maintained that its policy had nothing to do with sex discrimination; GE said it just could not afford a disability insurance plan covering pregnancy...
LIKE THE Spanish Inquisition and the Salem witch trials, The Communist-hunting of the McCarthy era represents one of those too frequent periods in history when tolerance and rationality were abandoned in the overzealous pursuit of an ignoble goal. Such aberrations in social behavior, because they so unjustly harm the innocent, often inspire potent works of art depicting the struggle of the helpless individual against the demonic forces of the prosecution. The theme is tailor-made for exciting, socially significant theatre and cinema. When done well, the result is a deeply moving classic of the modern stage like...