Word: egyptian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While snotty-nosed Arab children stopped scuffling in the dust to gape and wonder, a disguised Egyptian policeman recently offered to buy a mangy and decrepit old camel for $40, about 20 times its apparent value. The astonished moppets' beady eyes grew even wider as the camel's Arab owner not only turned down this princely offer but refused to sell at any price-and was promptly arrested. Disemboweling the old camel, police found it had been forced to swallow zinc cylinders containing narcotics by Arab smugglers who recently have been driving a surprising number of decrepit camels...
Night lights were turned on again. Foreign mails arrived on time. Troops were withdrawn from Libya's Egyptian border. The French border was reopened...
...Actium, in 31 B. C., while spellbound land forces stopped fighting to watch, Octavian's Roman fleet struck the Eastern fleet of Antony and Cleopatra, until Antony's soldiers saw their leader abandon the fight, sail off with the Egyptian queen...
...Maher Pasha moved with no such heavy steps. Adjoining Egypt is rich Italian Libya, with 120,000 troops. Last week, after Benito Mussolini proclaimed Italian neutrality, these troops stepped back from the Egyptian frontiers. Promptly the Egyptian Cabinet met, took the first step toward declaring war on Germany by breaking off diplomatic relations. If Benito Mussolini was playing Adolf Hitler's game by waiting, Ali Maher Pasha wanted to find it out. If Italy took no stand in this attack on her Axis partner, her intentions would be that much clearer. Ali Maher Pasha settled back to war with...
Died. The Abuna Abraham, 77, blind Patriarch of the "Independent National Church of Ethiopia" (Coptic), who was appointed in 1937 by the Italians when the Abuna Cyril fled to Egypt and started a schism between the Ethiopian and Egyptian Coptic Churches; in Addis Ababa...