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History in the making on the streets of Egyptian cities.

Hello again, I'm Orin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

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In Egypt tonight, tens of thousands of protesters defied both tear gas and an official curfew

imposed in Alexandria, Suez, Cairo, and other parts of the country. In Cairo and Alexandria,

the Army was deployed and embraced by demonstrators after brutal violence by the riot police.

Well, into the evening, President Hosni Mubarak, the Army's commander-in-chief, had yet to be

heard from.

There were reports that his family had left the country.

Can his 30-year-old administration survive tonight's unprecedented uprising?

What about the rest of the Middle East?

What does the Obama administration have to say?

All that and more in a moment. First, here's the news.

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back with To the Poet. As soldiers took over for riot police, Tang the put.

As soldiers took over for riot police,

tanks rolled through the streets of Cairo and Alexandria tonight.

Tens of thousands of protesters were demanding the removal of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak.

In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the U.S. has repeatedly supported the human rights of the Egyptian people.

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