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...first day of the October War. Dressed as Egypt's Supreme Commander in a field marshal's gold-braided blue uniform festooned with a green sash, Sadat made a traditional stop on the way to the parade, paying his respects and praying at the grave of his predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser, in nearby Heliopolis. Then the President climbed into an open-roofed limousine, accompanied by eight bodyguards, to join Mubarak and Defense Minister General Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala for the short ride to Nasr City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sadat: How It Happened | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

Egyptian police launched the roundup with late-night calls on leading political dissidents and religious militants. Mohammed Heikal, author, journalist and confidant of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser, was roused at 3 a.m. at his summer villa in Alexandria and escorted -"gently," said an aide-to Cairo's Tora Prison. Sheikh Abdel Hamid Kishk, a blind fundamentalist preacher renowned for his rigid Islamic orthodoxy, was jailed for his vitriolic sermons against Copts. Five other Muslim imams were also arrested, along with seven activist members of the Coptic clergy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt: Cracking Down | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

From the beginning, Gaddafi's aspirations were not limited to Libya. Hoping to succeed Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser as the charismatic leader of the Arab world, Gaddafi tried to engineer mergers first with Egypt, then the Sudan, Tunisia and finally Syria. He bankrolled Palestinian commando groups, including the extremists of Black September, and at one time made his country a refuge for international air hijackers. By pouring petrodollars into poor sub-Saharan Africa, he persuaded a number of African nations to sever their ties to Israel. At the same time, he proffered arms and money to "liberation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dedicated Troublemaker | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

There were indications that an Arab-initiated solution for the missile confrontation was still being zealously pursued. Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam made a quick trip to Saudi Arabia carrying a message from Assad to King Khalid. It was the third such exchange in the past two weeks about the specifics of an arrangement to persuade the Syrians to remove their missiles in return for some modification of the Israelis' reconnaissance flights over Lebanon. To sweeten the deal, the Saudis are reported to have already delivered $1 billion of a $4 billion economic and financial package to Damascus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Pausing at the Summit | 6/15/1981 | See Source »

...concluded this accord, if we had not had the assistance of your government." State Department officials spoke admiringly of the "tireless work"-and the "imagination and understanding" displayed throughout the ten weeks of ceaseless negotiations by the three chief Algerian envoys: Ambassador to Washington Redha Malek, Ambassador to Tehran Abdel-krim Ghraieb, and Central Bank Governor Mohammed Seghir Mostefai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chadli, Malek, Gharaieb, Mostefae: Algeria's Tireless Postmen | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

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