Word: anwar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...negotiating principles, which would then be presented to an Arab summit meeting for ratification. Explained an aide: "Arafat does not want to make a move without a lot of people moving with him." Referring to Egypt's isolation from the rest of the Arab world after Anwar Sadat signed the peace treaty with Israel, he added: "The lesson of Sadat is that there is safety in numbers." That was fine with Hussein, but first he wanted to work out the details of the agreement with Arafat. One of the P.L.O. leader's colleagues remarked that, as always, "Hussein...
...Kennedy School of Government will help run an electoral reform conference next fall which may draw together all three living former presidents of the United States. It would apparently be the second such gathering ever, the first taking place in 1981 at former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat's funeral...
...support of both Arafat and Jordan's Arab allies, notably Saudi Arabia's King Fahd. Jordan is dependent on Saudi Arabia and the gulf states for more than $1 billion a year in economic assistance. Hussein, moreover, would be personally even more vulnerable than assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was after he signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. Says a European diplomat in Amman: "Jordan is not Egypt. It could not sustain the burdens of isolation...
...policy of alliance with the devil is not objectionable until it becomes favorable to the devil." So spoke President Anwar Sadat back in 1972 when he stunned the world with the announcement that the Soviets and their advisors were no longer welcome in Egypt, and that he personally would guide his country through peace or war in the future. Twenty thousand soldiers packed up and left for home while a humiliated Moscow tried to make do without a valuable strategic base in the warm waters of the Mediterranean. Thus in one bold stroke. Sadat undid a close military alliance (established...
...like typical tourists, gliding down the Nile, clicking away at the Sphinx, even striking a matching pose in front of a pharaonic frieze at Luxor. Except, of course, that typical tourists do not have the Nile searched for explosives beforehand; neither do they lunch with Jehan Sadat, widow of Anwar, nor get together with President Hosni Mubarak. Visiting Egypt on a swing through the Middle East, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were reminded often of the 1978 Camp David accords. Strolling through a Cairo bazaar, he was greeted with shouts of "Welcome, Mr. Peace Man!" Mused Carter: "I could do very...