Military Aid for Egyptians Loses Support

Senator Patrick J. Leahy, chairman of the Senate subcommittee that handles foreign aid, said Tuesday that he would not give any more military aid to Egypt in the wake of mass death sentences handed out by Egyptian courts this week. On Monday, an Egyptian court sentenced the top spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood along with more than 680 others to death in connection with the killing of a single police officer during a riot last summer. Another court in Cairo banned the activities of a left-leaning protest group on espionage charges.