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Arab heads of state meet on Sept. 27, 1970, at the Nile Hilton in Cairo to put an end to the civil war in Jordan between Palestinians and the government of King Hussein. From left to right: Libyan leader Moammer Gadhafi, PLO chief Yasser Arafat, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and King Hussein of Jordan. Palestinian and Israeli officials steeled themselves on November 4, 2004 for the possible death of the veteran Palestinian leader as Arafat lay critically ill in a Paris hospital. While Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei tried to play down in public the seriousness of Arafat's condition, French doctors and Palestinian officials privately acknowledged that the man who has led the nationalist struggle for some 40 years was critically ill. (UPI photo/HO )
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UPI Almanac for Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Groups in Egypt funded by the U.S. Congress and other human rights and pro-democracy organizations were closed by the Egyptian military, accused of interference in domestic politics. They didn’t have much to brag about anyway.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Egypt’s latest bloody riots that killed 26 and injured several hundred show that the path to elections at the end of November is strewn with booby traps.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Between World War I and World War II, Egypt hovered between faux colonialism and faux democracy, going from bad to worse. The land of the pharaohs has known only six years of real democracy in its 5,000-year history.
CAIRO, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Parliamentary elections scheduled for Nov. 29 will undoubtedly leave the ruling National Democratic Party in power, as it has been for decades.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- To better understand the Middle East it helps to take in a broader perspective of the situation; to step back and examine the problem with some distance.
UPI Almanac for Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008.
HANOVER, N.H., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Richard Nolte, whose brief career as U.S. ambassador to Egypt ended when he was expelled during the Six-Day War, has died at 86.
UPI almanac for Monday, Jan. 15, 2007.
Today is Sunday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of 2006 with 350 to follow.
