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is too much for the income of the
country."
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Dr. Alsha Rateb
Mlnlster of Social Affairs
"1 would like to see them given all
kinds of birth-control methods, free
of course. But when you think
about the peasants, they have more
children because it means more in–
come for the parents. . . . They
leave the primary school and work
in the fields collecting cotton. and
they give money to their par–
ents.... The government is making
national security for them. And it
will help.. . ."
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Jehan el Sadat
" 1like the three cities on the canal
zone there. The first thing 1started
after the first disengagement was
returning the refugees from the
three cities. They were ghost
cities....
"You can' t imagine how 1 feel
happy when 1 visit one of these
cities and see their inhabitants re–
turning again after seven years and
atter the time when they thought
they wi ll never return again to their
own town."
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Anwar el Sadat
"When we were coming from the
United States, 1was telling my hus–
band why weren't we in a good
relationship with these people?
Why? We couldn ' t compare our–
selves to you. We are a developing
country. You are the most ad–
vanced country in the world. How
cou ld we put ourselves on the same
level? ...
"Even my husband said it in his
speech during the war. He said, '1
can't continue a war with the United
States.' And he stopped it. "
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Jehan el Sadat
LIKE CH/LDREN
around the world,
these little cotton-clad boys in Cairo
(top right) eagerly pose for anyone
with a camera. The street corners of
Cairo abound with colorful news–
stands (center right), though unfortu–
nately the majority of the adult
population of Egypt sti/1 remains il/it–
erate.
A Muslim cemetery (bottom) forms
a backdrop to peasant lite in rural
Egypt.
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