Word: nile
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Jimmy Carter's bold flight to the Middle East last week was one of the most startling and swiftly executed diplomatic initiatives in years. Just 72 hours after he telephoned Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to invite himself to Cairo, Carter was on the banks of the Nile. It was a daring attempt to use the prestige of the U.S. presidency to end the months-long stalemate blocking an Egyptian-Israeli peace settlement. Even though the search for a Middle East ac cord has claimed more of the President's time than any other issue, last week's jour...
...improved (in the hope that street lights would not all suddenly go out, as often happens), and communication equipment was installed to serve the official American party and the estimated 2,500 journalists covering the trip. To house the visitors, the government took over the entire 400-room Nile Hilton Hotel, forcing its infuriated guests to find other accommodations in the middle of the tourist season. Concerned about terrorists, authorities confined Cairo residents with radical backgrounds to their homes until Carter's departure...
...ceremonial highlight of the second day of the visit was the 137-mile, four-hour train ride from the capital to Alexandria, through Sadat's home district in the heart of the verdant Nile delta. "This is my Georgia," exclaimed the Egyptian leader, pointing to the landscape of thatched-roof mud houses and farmers tilling with ox-drawn wooden plows. The antique diesel locomotive, decorated with flowers and palms, was greeted along the way by the shrill sound of reed instruments and the rhythmic clapping of hands. Dangling from trees and lampposts, clustered on roofs and balconies, and crowding close...
Khalil, 58, is a highly skilled technocrat. Born into a prosperous farming family in the Nile Delta, he studied at the University of Illinois, where he earned a doctorate in engineering. A hard-driving and meticulous worker, he became minister of communications in the Nasser regime at the age of 36. As minister of oil and industry, he played a major role in the industrialization of Egypt during the 1950s and '60s, then broke with Nasser's leftist supporters and resigned from the government in 1966 to become a professor at the University of Cairo. An admirer...
Once the closest of allies, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Jordan's King Hussein are now sharply divided over Sadat's 14-month-old peace initiative and the Camp David accords. Seated in the sunbathed garden of his Aswan house overlooking the Nile, Sadat, confident, incisive, expansive, described to Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan, Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan and Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn the basis for his commitment to a peace treaty with Israel as the first step toward solving the problems of the Middle East. He spoke angrily of the role...