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...measured intervals and with punctuating puffs of acrid rolling smoke, a 21-gun salute from the Egyptian destroyer October Six rippled the waters of Port Said harbor last week. As the guns boomed, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat climbed aboard the 3,500-ton Soviet-built ship, named for the day in 1973 on which Egypt attacked Israeli positions in the occupied Sinai. With Sadat on her bridge, the October Six slipped her lines, gathered speed and at ten knots moved slowly southward into the Suez Canal; symbolic floating gates decorated with pharaonic designs parted to let her through. Another destroyer...
...more aware than Sadat of the precarious political path along which he is walking and the fateful consequences of any misstep. If war erupts anew, the canal would be quickly blocked. A prolonged deadlock in peace talks could eventually also spell the end of Arab moderation and possibly of Anwar Sadat as well. Balancing this threat, however, is a conclusion that Sadat reached long ago. The 1973 war may have restored Arab pride (even though, after initial successes, the Arab armies took a beating), but in the end peace is necessary to help Egypt's stumbling economy. Unless...
...part of the system, he has no desire to topple it. Rather, he has a stake in preserving the existing social structure, and he believes that the best way to preserve it is to stabilize the whole area by getting a peace settlement-one written by a moderate like Anwar Sadat...
...returns from this massive investment can be seen in striking ways. There are an estimated 1,000 Soviet military advisers in Iraq, as well as hundreds of civilian technicians. Another 1,000 civilian technicians are in Syria. Despite Anwar Sadat's 1972 expulsion order, as many as 2,000 Soviet technicians and an equal number of dependents remain in Egypt...
Since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the 101-mile-long canal has been little more than a fortified ditch. The Israeli pullback into the Sinai in the aftermath of the October 1973 war still leaves it open to easy attack. But with both banks now under Egyptian control. President Anwar Sadat gambled that he could open it again. To underscore his seriousness, Sadat also approved a $10 billion five-year plan to rebuild the ruined cities along the canal's banks and construct new airports, rail lines and communications facilities in the area...