Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There were a few incidents of unrest in the country, though nothing to equal the 36 hours of bloody fighting between Islamic fundamentalists and security forces that had taken place late the previous week in the southern city of Asyut, where at least 100 were killed. After a gun battle in a Cairo suburb, police arrested two men whom they accused of leading the rioting in Asyut. At Cairo International Airport, two bombs exploded in the baggage hold of an Air Malta jetliner that had just arrived from Libya, killing an airport worker and injuring a dozen others...
...near the Libyan-Egyptian border. Another Western diplomat said flatly: "The means employed by this Administration are completely disproportionate to the intended effect. They nullify it." In Bonn, officials privately called the approach heavy handed, fearing that it would attract attention to U.S. interests in Egypt, fan further Islamic unrest and lend substance to Soviet charges that the Egyptian government is an American puppet. Right on cue, the Soviet press accused the Administration of "crude interference" in Egypt's affairs and insisted that the U.S. was "feverishly stepping up war preparations in the Middle East...
...state bureaucracy began. Following these moves, Sadat declared in a tough speech that "lack of discipline in any way or form" had ended in his country. This time, however, the visionary statesman and consummate strategist had fatally misjudged the situation: his killers emerged from a cauldron of seething unrest and fanaticism...
...firmly controls the army) or at the polls (where he seems invincible) but by fomenting trouble between the Muslim and Christian communities in the hope of creating national chaos. In his speech, Sadat accused both religious and political enemies of "conniving together" to exaggerate several recent incidents of unrest, including a domestic quarrel between a Muslim family and a Christian family last June that had led to three days of clashes and at least 17 deaths. The event itself was unimportant, said Sadat, but was exploited by the regime's religious opponents as well as two legal opposition groups...
...with hard times, food shortages, long queues for essential commodities, and nagging uncertainty about the future. On the very day of Solidarity's anniversary, the government announced sharp increases in the price of bread and cereal. Since it was a meat-price hike that had led to prolonged unrest last year, and the subsequent birth of Solidarity, it was conceivable that the new increases would trigger protests. In fact there were none-perhaps because the public realized that bread prices had been unrealistically low. At 120 a loaf, bread had actually been cheaper than the grain used to make...