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Show CAIRO am television," Tamader Tawfik, perched behind a massive desk piled high with papers and manipulating a battery of telephones, declared. From her eighth-floo- r office overlooking the Nile, the dynamo with charcoal grey eyeshadow and heavy gold earrings directs a television staff of leio e I:17 33, t b.. president of Egyptian television for seven months. "I go into two million homes. Ten million people see me every day. People don't go out at night like they used to. They sit at home and watch me." She was speaking figuratively, for she appears infrequently before the cameras. "Sometimes they drag me to a studio to ask me silly questions and get silly answers, like, 'What is happening to the Egyptian song? Is it going downhill? What am I doing to encourage new songwriters?" "I NEVER escape. Never! Does anyone Who works in television ever escape? I go home at night and turn on two television sets and watch both channels. "It is not easy, being head of television. The public! The Egyptian public! They tell me what they like and what they don't like. We are poor, we are uneducated, but we are very critical. And the 4,500. - : ' 2- Three flights down, in another executive suite overlooking the Nile, Safia el Mohandis sorts out the problems of Egypt's 10 radio stations and a staff of 4,000. by THE TWO women have risen to the top in the d Egyptian electrUnic media in a part of the world where women have long been expected to defer to men, in a profession Ear leen F. Tatro state-owne- Associated Press Writer dominated male world-wid- by e decision-maker- "It's a hell of a job," said Miss Tawfik, who has been poorest, the most uneducated, he is the most critical of them all," said Miss Tawfik, whose broadcast career spans three decades as announcer, newsreader, director and administrator. She left radio in 1959 to help prepare for Egypt's entry into television in 1960. Before becoming president of television, she was secretary-gof the Union of eneral Egyptian Radio and Television, which she described as a secretariat for Egyptian radio and TV and their engineering and commercial sections. "I was snatched from there in spite of my better judgment, despite my likes and dislikes," she said with theatrical gestures and comical moans, not quite convincing anyone that she is not thriving on her new job. EGYPTIAN television has two channels, both government-controlled, which carry soap operas, old I WORD SEARCH Hidden are 15 words to circle. Words go across, down, diagonally, up and backward. CAN YOU FIND THEM? movies, concerts and sports Arabic and news in Arabic, French and English. In addition, each night there is usually one American in such as program, "Policewoman" or "Wagon Train," and one foreign film, usually American, British or French. But although Egypt is a television pioneer in the Arab world and exports its programs to other Arab nations, Miss Tawfik envies the technology of American TV. Both Miss Tawfik and Miss Mohandis, a JMGNPZROWLKYCS AYHQELBADOUXN CROD KMSF ZWJCE V I PEYRKISG VRHNS BE IR ES JCDP EWHEVMSOHNOIG KPGLPOUAIZON It $ RMEOCDACJ VO TJHSYHOEWNGDK EOSBUV OCTPHE ZRWOAGLIJP SOP MGODILUBTONMUV YCZJOCSPWLIKYNA I does a coffee pot feel when It's hot? 1. How 2. Why did the mother put her baby on the phonograph? 3. What happened when the dentist and the manicurist had an argument? 4. What do you call a sunburn on your stomach? 5. Why did the hens refuse to lay any more eggs? G I I I O I I 1. Canine 2. Terrier 3. Bulldog 4. Poodle 5. 6. Pekingese Retriever 7. Mutt 8. Fido 9. Stooby Doo W K 10. Lassie I 11. Rin Tin Tin I SAKCMYOL V ZMG0-- 12. Collie 13. Bloodhound 14. Shepherd 15. Chihuahua 1 6. 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"All the people said, "Oh, there is a woman on the radio," Miss Mohandis said. "The sheikhs religious leaders said, 'It is illegal,' but it was not, of course not." Miss Mohandis worked half a dozen years as a newsreader, "and then, as they say, I went up the stairs step by step until I reached the ." she chuckled, leaving the sentence unfinished. In 1976 she became president of Egyptian radio, succeeding her husband, Mohamed Mahmoud Shaaban, when he v retired. Mohandis, a woman who wears softly tailored clothes and heavy-rimme- d glasses, still tapes women's programs which are aired for half an hour every day. She oversees the 10 channels of Egyptian radio, which includes news channels, a religious channel, the "European channel" which plays Western music and broadcasts news in English, French, German, Italian and Greek throughout Egypt, the Voice of the Arabs, which beams to other Arab nations, and international broadcasts in 25 languages which reach Africa, Asia. Europe and the Americas. ASKED WHY women outnumber men in Egyptian broadcasting, she replied: "You see, our people are university graduates. Most of the men who go to the university go into the army for two years or more after graduation. I think that is why the female made an invasion into radio and television." Both Miss Tawfik and Miss Mohandis earn about $4.000 a year. which seems low compared to television salaries in the United States But in Egypt. where the average annual wage is $250. $4.000 is a good salary. Both women said they earn as much as a man would in the jobs. Miss soft-spoke- n --1 t71 7 '71 V. -- 1 gP. 10. Ot |
