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Egypt First. Nasser's picture continues to hang in government offices instead of Sadat's, but Sadat has quickly developed a style and emphasis of his own. He has begun to mute Nasser's stress on Pan-Arabism and concentrate on Egypt's internal problems. When one of United Arab Airlines' aging Comets crashed two weeks ago in Tripoli, killing 16, Sadat grounded the other four and UAA Chairman Ahmed Tewfik Bakry as well; Egypt then leased six Ilyushin 18s from Eastern European airlines. To revamp Cairo's creaking transit system, Sadat...
...Deaf-mutes have commonly been found fit for trial, but the fact of Lang's further disabilities posed enormous problems. Not only would he be unable to understand what was happening at the trial, but he could not communicate with his attorney to help prepare a defense. The attorney, Lowell Myers, is himself deaf and specializes in representing deaf-mutes. Myers contends that Lang and the woman, who was neither deaf nor mute, were attacked while walking to her house from a nearby tavern. After the murder, the lawyer notes, Lang "went into a bar and tried...
Much of the debate prior to passage of the order centered on the legality of Cronin's temporary adjustments of 158 buildings to the current rent level. Cronin said "I regard that issue as one of the birth pains of this administration which is now mute...
Harry stays on, too obstinate and too desperate to admit defeat. Archie and Gus return to the States, back to their families, their jobs, their listless lives. When the cab from the airport drops them off, they stand in their neighboring driveways, sharing a moment of mute terror. Finally, one finds words: "What's he going to do without us?" They stare silently at each other for a moment more. Then they go home...
...disgrace in the Franco-Prussian War, le Général had a profound respect for the abilities of the Germans. On a visit to the Soviet Union in 1945, De Gaulle stopped off to see the battlefield at Stalingrad. For a long time, he stood mute before the incredible destruction. Molotov waited for his comment. Finally it came. "Un grand peuple," De Gaulle said somberly. "Un grand peupleles allemands...