Word: sami
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...travel, and the principals in this soggy little love story are forever wheeling off in passionate pursuit of one another. Cesar (Yves Montand) is a buoyant businessman, a self-made success, enamored of Rosalie (Romy Schneider), who loves him and yields to him but always, somehow, eludes him. David (Sami Frey), who looks like Warren Beatty after two weeks on a health farm, is a cartoonist also in love with Rosalie. At first dazzled by her two determined suitors, Rosalie scurries between them, settling, finally, for neither. Meantime, Cesar and David become fast friends, their common pain and loss binding...
...prominent men-were all under house arrest or in jail last week. They included former Vice President Ali Sabry, whose dismissal by Sadat three weeks ago began the whole battle for control, as well as Gomaa and former War Minister General Mohammed Fawzi and ex-Minister for Presidential Affairs Sami Sharaf. Gomaa's intelligence chief, Major General Hassan Talaat-who is rumored to have taken notorious delight in watching suspects being tortured-was hospitalized after Sadat's Republican Guards gave him a measure of the same treatment. Most of the other government officials who were arrested are being...
...strengthen his hold. Even so, few expected him to move as quickly and boldly as he did. Later in the week, in rapid-fire succession, Sadat fired Egypt's tough Interior Minister Shaarawi Gomaa and accepted the resignations of War Minister General Mohammed Fawzi, Minister for Presidential Affairs Sami Sharaf, two leaders of the Arab Socialist Union, the speaker of the National Assembly, and three other ministers-in sum, the heads of all the military, legislative and political institutions in the country. Then he placed all nine under house arrest on charges of plotting to overthrow his government...
...They had more personal reasons as well. One of the Cabinet members who resigned is married to Gomaa's daughter, another to Gomaa's sister-in-law. The departed War Minister, Mohammed Fawzi, is a cousin of Sami Sharaf. And ex-Information Minister Mohammed Fayek is married to the niece of Ali Sabry...