Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dependent on subsidies amounting to $5.4 billion from the U.S., Saudi Arabia and the other Arab oil states merely to keep going. Egypt's parlous economic situation is certainly a political hazard for Sadat. Seventy-nine people died during two days of food riots last January in Cairo and Alexandria. The violence ended only when Sadat reluctantly rolled back price increases on wheat, oil and other staples...
...course of his second Middle East swing last August, U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance met with Sadat at the presidential rest house in Alexandria. There he broke some discouraging news. Vance, who was sounding out Israel, Egypt, Syria and Jordan on ways to resume the recessed Geneva conference, told Sadat that Jerusalem had many serious misgivings and did not appear eager for a Geneva meeting this year. Menachem Begin's government was adamantly opposed to a Palestine Liberation Organization presence at negotiations. By fostering new settlements on the West Bank, the Israeli government had made clear that it would...
...Ptolemy's observations. Ptolemy claimed, for example, that he had observed an autumnal equinox at 2 p.m. on Sept. 25, A.D. 132; he stressed that he had measured the phenomenon "with the greatest care." But, says Newton, back calculation from modern tables shows that an observer in Alexandria, Egypt, where Ptolemy made his observation, should have seen the equinox at 9:54 a.m. on Sept. 24, more than a day earlier...
DIED. General Charles Hartwell Bonesteel III, 68, commander in chief of the United Nations troops in Korea (1966-69); after a long illness; in Alexandria, Va. Bonesteel served as operational planner for the Normandy invasion under General Omar Bradley and after the war helped lay the groundwork for the Marshall Plan. Throughout the '60s and '70s he repeatedly called for expanded conventional-as opposed to nuclear-capabilities...
...fired the scrolls of Alexandria To warm the waters of the public baths...". John Wheelwright. "To Wise Men on the Death of a Fool...