Word: shepheard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Same Boat. Nasser had laid on quite a welcome. A pair of saluting cannons chugged steadily while the Egyptian army band played a carefully rehearsed series of national anthems, most of which were unwritten five years ago. The entire Nile Hilton was turned over to the delegates, and Shepheard's bar was jammed. For nondrinking Moslems there was belly-dancing in the Tent Caravan Nightclub at the Hilton...
...place to shoehorn into at the moment is Shepheard's, a fantasia of golden Pharaohs, gilded sphinxes, palm trees and desert tents, which is supposed to suggest the famed old outpost of empire in Cairo that burned down in 1952. Shepheard's, which opened last December in the Drake Hotel, is not a club-though that is not to say it is easy to get a table. It is also not a pure discotheque; a combo of drums, bass and xylophone plays along with the records...
...little to show from Nasser's friendship. Says Pierre Mulele, Gizenga's "chief of mission" in Cairo: "All the aid we have got from the U.A.R. is the visa that was given me to come here." Mulele lives as Nasser's guest in a suite in Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo, comforted by a big Siemens radio receiver to keep him in touch with Stanleyville. One Cairo diplomat sums up Nasser's diminished stature: "Nobody has much to hope for from his support, and nobody much to fear from his enmity...
...plotting Ghaleb and staff as well. Astonished at this ingratitude, Nasser turned to an old Cairo weapon of reprisal: nationalization. Since the Congo itself owns nothing in Egypt he could nationalize, he grabbed all the big Belgian companies in town (seven major firms, including the Belgian-controlled Shepheard's Hotel) on the theory that the Belgians must be whispering in Congolese ears...