Word: anwar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After leaving Oman at dawn, the homeward-bound group stopped in Cairo for its meeting with President Mubarak, who had succeeded the assassinated Anwar Sadat only three weeks before. Mubarak stressed his determination to rebuild relations with his estranged Arab brothers, and appealed for more U.S. investment in Egypt's troubled economy...
...Saudis with adequate defenses. The sale would not shift the balance of military strength in the Middle East away from Israel, and it would provide the Saudis with a token of American reliability. Finally, the protection of the remaining moderate Arab states after the assassination of Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was essential to the interests of Israel as well as to those...
...midnight. But has the Administration learned anything from the near fiasco? Once again, unfortunately, portents are mixed. The Administration still shows a propensity to opt for ill-considered military solutions to complex diplomatic problems. For example, the first reaction by Washington to the assassination of Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was to increase the size of a U.S. training exercise in the Egyptian desert scheduled for November. Operation Bright Star is being scaled down, in apparent recognition that so suffocating a U.S. embrace could only embarrass Sadat's successor...
...effort from National Security Adviser Richard Allen. They decided that the issue did not lend itself to the type of televised presidential appeal that worked so well on the economic package. Instead, the Administration opted for one-on-one personal appeals to wavering Senators. The assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in early October helped unsettle many of the sale opponents, and prompted immediate support from Republicans Orrin Hatch of Utah and Alan Simpson of Wyoming...
Nixon's big moves in foreign policy were the most spectacular in a quarter-century. He and Kissinger made the historic opening to China, proclaimed detente with the Soviets and negotiated SALT I, and broke through the Arab front to do business with Anwar Sadat. At the least, these will always be remembered as bold initiatives, whether for long-term good or ill we cannot be sure-the returns...