Paying pipers: Egypt and America. (press accusations that Egypt is trying the help Libya get United Nations sanctions removed and criticisms of US aid to Egypt) From: The Economist (US) | Date: December 24, 1994 | COPYRIGHT 1994 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

EGYPT'S reward, and compensation, for making non-belligerency, the two countries--with Egypt getting about two-thirds of Israel's allocation--each year gobbled up more than a third of America's aid budget. Then, with fellow Arabs making, or at least talking, peace with Israel, Egypt sought other ways to justify its share of the pot: staunch friendship with the West, as shown by the Gulf war; economic reforms; 60m people struggling to survive; the threat of Islamic militancy. But its ...