Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journalists were flying into Cairo to attend?along with a U.S. delegate and a United Nations representative?a pre-Geneva conference that Sadat had convoked. Even though the two countries were still technically at war, the Israelis found themselves welcomed with astounding warmth and joy by Egyptians. Near Alexandria, the Defense Ministers of Egypt and Israel met to discuss military maps. Now Menachem Begin had proposals. They would talk, face to face, said Sadat. Where? At Sadat's rest house near Ismailia. Each day brought its swirl of events, its new initiatives, its new improbabilities...
...growing middle class. A low-ranking civil servant in Egypt's swollen, slow-moving bureaucracy may earn no more than $45 a month; an evening at currently fashionable Jackie's Disco in Cairo costs $60 per person. Some of the affluent Egyptians who can afford a summer home in Alexandria are uncomfortable about the disparity between their country's two nations. Says one wealthy, Harvard-educated Cairene: "I feel like a foreigner when I'm with the Egyptian lower class. When I meet my driver every day, I ask him about his family, and that is about all the conversation...
...spurted after the completion of the Soviet-financed Aswan High Dam in 1971, has not kept pace with the numbers, and Egypt is forced to divert money from development to buy food from abroad. When the government cut food subsidies as an economy measure last January, Cairo's and Alexandria's poor rampaged through the streets in the worst riots since the nationalist upheavals of 1952. The subsidies were quickly restored...
...furious. It doesn't mean that he doesn't trust me, only that he doesn't want to worry me. A little while after that we got hold of a tape recording of a conversation by the plotters. My husband was planning to go to Alexandria next day, and we heard on the tape that they were thinking of assassinating him on his way there. But he canceled his trip and went to Cairo instead...
...Alexandria...