Word: sharaf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
After hearing the tapes, Sadat called up Sharaf and told him to inform Gomaa "that I have accepted his resignation"-despite the fact that the Interior Minister had not submitted a resignation. Sharaf "wept on the telephone," Sadat recalled during his broadcast last week. "I said, 'When I lose confidence in someone, I cannot maneuver or lay an ambush. I am straightforward and always in the open...