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well aa changes in personnel in the Egyptian cultural ministry and the Organization of Egyptian Antiquities originally led to the break down in relations with the Metropolitan An especially sore point was a $1 million gift from Lola Acheaon Wallace co-founder of' Digest which had several strings attached to it notably that it be used only for the Cairo Museum and that Having act as a consultant on it Now el-Orabi says of the Wallace money "I care about Anyhow he said "The Metropolitan waa just speaking they did not offer anything concrete The Brooklyn came and knocked on the door and asked to Those who have dealt with el-Orabi tend to talk of him aa a "can-do Hoving tells some admiring anecdotes about him For instance the Metropolitan crew arrived in Cairo in November 1975 with all the equipment necessary to start work on reproductions only to learn that electricity was not yet installed for the work Hoving said he called el-Orabi who met him that night on a street corner spliced some cable into a street lamp then snaked it up a wall through a broken window and into the new reproduction studio role in the Cairo Museum project will be to produce reproductions of its especially jewelry for sale He is an officer in a company called Museum Marketing Associates Inc set up by a former Metropolitan staff member who made the Tut reproductions and is doing the same for former Vice President Nelson collection Tire initials of Museum Marketing Associates Inc are MMA conveniently the same aa those for the Metropolitan Museum of Art "We chose it for that Hoving said candidly "It infringe on copyrights in any At present a Brooklyn Museum expert Bernard Bothmer the curator of Egyp-' tian Art is in Cairo preparing a catalog of 700 unpublished sculptures at the Cairo Museum project is only one of the ways in which the Brooklyn Museum has maintained an ongoing involvement in Egyptian antiquities schol- Now accepting orders for the new Amsof contact lenses These lenses may be solution 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