Word: sharaf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...James A. Sharaf '59, attorney in the Office of the General Counsel, said that all student activities except athletics have traditionally received only voluntary support in order to "ensure the maximum independence of student organization...
...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 held...
Unlikely Survivor. The same afternoon, General Fawzi tried to enlist the tough commander of Egypt's Saiqa (Thunderbolt) Special Forces troops, Major General Mohammed Husseini Shazli, in a coup attempt. It was to have begun shortly after the joint resignations of Fawzi, Sharaf and three other ministers were to be announced on the radio news. Though Shazli was supposed to take over Cairo and arrest Sadat, in fact he did nothing. (Later, he too was rewarded, with an appointment as army chief of staff.) When the resignations were announced on the air, anti-Sadat demonstrators were expected to pour...
...Moscow-with a $3 billion investment in arms and 19,000 technicians, troops and advisers on Egyptian soil -know about the plot? Sabry, Sharaf and Gomaa were the Russians' best friends in Cairo. Moreover, Soviet Ambassador Vladimir M. Vinogradov visited Sharaf for an hour the day before the attempted takeover. But there is no firm evidence of Soviet involvement...
...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...