1.   Dulles, however, quickly backed off when Macmillan raised the question of actual Anglo-American pressure against Nasser, the charismatic Egyptian leader.

2.   Anti-Nasserite emotion was growing in Washington as the Egyptian leader went his own way.

3.   Angering Netanyahu, the Egyptian leader openly linked the gas deal to progress in peace talks with the Palestinians.

4.   Arafat arrived in Cairo Saturday to see Mubarak for a meeting in which the administration hopes the Egyptian leader will lend Arafat some cover for compromise on Jerusalem.

5.   As part of a week-long visit to Washington D.C., the Egyptian leader visited the high-tech hotbed of Northern Virginia.

6.   Assad only rarely speaks in public, and it has been several months since he met with the Egyptian leader.

7.   A decade later, when the Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat made a separate peace with Israel, the Arab nation ostracized Egypt from its leadership councils.

8.   Clinton spoke with the Egyptian leader, Hosni Mubarak, on Monday morning to brief him on the proposal.

9.   Egyptian leaders have almost exclusively based their legitimacy on their important role in dealing with the Arab-Israel conflict.

10.   Haggag said Abdel Rahman made his statements on the Egyptian leader after Haggag had raised the issue by noting that Mubarak was in the United States at the time.