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Draped in a red, white and green Iranian flag, the coffin was placed in state in the Abdin palace. An honor guard of four Egyptian generals stood with swords drawn as incense from a brass burner wafted through the air. Egyptian President Sadat, in full military band delivered a drum roll as the coffin was borne on a caisson drawn by six black Arabian horses. The cortege proceeded solemnly through the streets of Cairo, to the shouts of thousands of Egyptians lining the 1.2-mile route. "There...
...Cairo, meanwhile, Israeli Ambassador Eliahu Ben Elissar, 48, bounded up the steps of Abdin Palace to present his credentials-along with those of new envoys of two other nations-to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. After an honor guard played the national anthems of Israel and Egypt, Sadat warmly shook hands with the bearded Israeli Ambassador and applauded the two countries' "determination to live together in peace and harmony." Ben Elissar both startled and pleased Sadat by asking his permission to place a wreath at a memorial to Egypt's unknown soldier...
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is often ill at ease in his office in Cairo's Abdin Palace. Its confined formality, he tells visitors, reminds him of prisons he was sent to for revolutionary plotting in Egypt's "colonial "days. Sadat is far more relaxed when he stays at one of his presidential resthouses outside Cairo. Recently, over tea and Turkish coffee in a resthouse beside the pyramids, he discussed his plans and dreams for Egypt with TIME Correspondents Wilton Wynn and Karsten Prager. Among his points...
...Egyptian authorities provided an enthusiastic crowd to greet the Chinese Premier, the official welcome was somewhat restrained. President Nasser-in Tunisia to attend ceremonies marking France's withdrawal from the Bizerte naval base when Chou arrived-got back to Cairo in time to give a lavish banquet at Abdin Palace. He presented Red China's premier with Egypt's highest decoration-the Collar of the Nile; in return, Chou rose to pledge an association between their two countries as enduring as "the ever-flowing Nile and Yellow Rivers...
...Egypt's President Nasser had ever felt dismay at Communist manipulation of the conference (as his lieutenants had assiduously suggested), all trace of it had vanished by conference's end. Nasser held a reception for the 500 conference delegates at Cairo's Abdin Palace, granted long private interviews to the heads of Soviet and Red Chinese delegations. The single solid result of the conference-an agreement to establish a permanent "Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Council"-clearly had Dictator Nasser's blessing. The new council will be headquartered in Cairo, will begin operations...