Word: anwar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With Anwar Sadat's untimely death [Oct. 19], I feel as though a beloved appendage to my life had been brutally chopped off. The state of Israel-and Jewish people like me-has lost a dear friend and ally. I hope all Israelis will join in mourning a true 20th century hero whose 21st century foresight will be woefully missed. Saryl Schwartz Phoenix...
...Anwar Sadat has been ridiculed in many countries. Only the rarest person can rise above prejudice, false pride and dignity, and embrace former enemies to further peace and the brotherhood of mankind. The Egyptian President's memory should be enshrined, and he should be awarded a perpetual peace prize...
...Anwar Sadat is being mourned by Americans because he was good for America. But, after all, he was the President of Egypt, an Arab country. The true mark of a leader is whether or not he is mourned by his own people...
Good leaders are those who ride the flow of events and direct their people's energies along that current. Great leaders are those who change the flow and rechannel it to the most productive direction despite the dangers politically and otherwise. Anwar Sadat was that kind of leader, and the likes of men with his vision and foresight are few and far between in the long history...
...surface, at least, Cairo was getting back to normal, as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak settled into his second week in office since the assassination of Anwar Sadat. Following the detention of suspected Muslim radicals, said by the government to number 350 but unofficially estimated at 1,500, Egypt's universities reopened without incident. Troops continued to guard government offices and other public buildings, but there was no repetition of the strife that broke out in the southern Egyptian city of Asyut two days after Sadat's death...