Seeing if I can't find the citation at least. Not sure if it's turned up, though several contemporary accounts are interesting in retrospect.

I'm wondering if Egypt has reconsidered its actions...

http://www.worldcat.org/title/introducing-internet-to-egypt-...

It might be John McConnell's Internetworking computer systems : interconnecting networks and systems (1988):

http://www.worldcat.org/title/internetworking-computer-syste...

Prentice Hall seems right for the publisher, though I'm not positive on the title. Date seems a year or three early.

Possibly John Quartman's The Matrix, 1990, which sounds closer to the right date:

https://www.amazon.com/Matrix-Computer-Networks-Conferencing...