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...Hawass is no stranger to hyperbole. Known for sporting an Indiana Jones style hat and his habit of ending up in front of cameras, the 61-year-old native of the Nile Delta town of Damietta is the government-appointed custodian of Egypt's monuments and the greatest promoter of its mysteries. Archaeological expeditions don't take place without his agency's sanction (and more than a few foreign Egyptologists have been frozen out of work as a result); any sensational discovery is invariably announced by him. "In Egypt," Hawass writes on his personal website, "archaeologists are bigger than movie...
Dead Wrong. In other moves, the Russians pulled back their airplanes and tightened their control of administration, operations and supplies at bases where Soviet troops are stationed. Cairo, Alexandria, Inshahs, Damietta, Aswan and Helwan are all protected by 15 to 20 batteries of SA3 missiles (with eight missiles to a battery). The batteries are on alert against any low-flying aircraft that might be carrying out ground-support missions for anti-Russian forces-and that could mean not only Israelis but also Egyptians carrying out a pro-Western coup. About 5,000 Russian infantrymen guard the SA3 missile sites...
...full year after Israel's line is due to go into operation. Under plans drawn up by a British engineering firm, the $150 million line would carry 50 million tons per year from the Gulf of Suez to one of three terminals-Alexandria, Damietta and Port Said. Despite the greater distance involved, the Egyptians will most likely decide on the 190-mile Alexandria route on the theory that it would be more secure from possible Israeli attack...
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