Word: anwar
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...strangest symbol of such controversy is Anwar Khatib, a suave attorney who maintains a dingy office behind the Herod's Gate post office and proclaims himself to be the Jordanian governor of Jerusalem. And although the last Jordanian forces were driven out of Jerusalem 15 years ago this June, a number of consuls come to pay him Official courtesy calls...
...Egypt, the press misjudged Anwar Sadat's popularity with his own people. With his bold gesture to Israel, Sadat was the first modern Arab to capture the non-Arab world's fancy. He was so articulate, attractive and reasonable in chatting with "Barbara" or "Walter" or "John." When in the last weeks of Sadat's life, he arrested upwards of 1,000 critics, the mind-set in the Western press was that he was overreacting to domestic opposition. Not until after his assassination did Western journalists learn how little loved he was at home...
From the moment the attack was launched on a Cairo reviewing stand last Oct. 6, killing Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, at least some of the 24 defendants who later went on trial for the assassination knew how their mission would end. Last Saturday a three-judge army tribunal announced its verdict: death for the leader of the plot, First Lieut. Khaled Ahmed Shawki Islambuli, his three hit-team accomplices and another of the ringleaders; prison sentences ranging from five years to life for 17 others involved in the conspiracy. Two were acquitted...
...next day there was a brief stop in Cairo to call on the father of disengagement, Anwar Sadat. He was already thinking of the future. The road was now open to larger steps toward peace and to accelerating the shift of his diplomacy toward Washington. He called me a "magician"; I said he had made me one, which was true...
...Israeli (and American) analysis before October 1973 agreed that Egypt and Syria lacked the capability to regain their territory by force of arms; hence it was assumed they would not attack. The premises were correct. The conclusions were not. What literally no one understood beforehand was the mind of Anwar Sadat. In his view, serious diplomacy was impossible while Israel considered itself militarily supreme and Egypt was paralyzed by humiliation. In 1972 he expelled Soviet troops from his country because of the disrespect shown by Soviet leaders toward Egyptians but above all because they would surely seek to impede...