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...expected tributes flooded in from all over the globe. President Richard Nixon called him "a man of vision, constraint, consistency and enormous strength of character." Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev praised him as "an outstanding statesman who commanded great respect in the Soviet Union." Egyptian President Anwar Sadat remembered him as a man who "proved by word and deed that he was a great friend of the Arab world." In his native France, boulevards and schools were already being named...
...Soviets are also annoyed with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat because of what they see as his lack of gratitude for Soviet arms. Said one Soviet host at a party for the visiting Americans: "Sadat with Kissinger is like a woman who opens her dress and offers herself." Sadat replied in kind. In an interview last week with the Beirut newspaper Al-Anwar, Sadat said the Soviets had deliberately deceived him by telling him that Syria had agreed to a ceasefire on the first day of the October...
...recent months, Mitterrand has held well-publicized meetings with West Germany's Willy Brandt and Egypt's Anwar Sadat, and wooed the support of workers with promises of tax reforms, better health care and higher pensions. But his uneasy union with the Communists, which assures him 20% of the vote, also tends to alienate middle-class voters who might otherwise be in the mood for a change...
...Egyptian-Israeli disengagement negotiations, which climaxed with Kissinger, in his now famous shuttle diplomacy, making almost daily flights between Jerusalem and President Anwar Sadat's vacation retreat in Aswan...
...Israelis, from sad past experience, greatly distrust the United Nations, and the Russians, besides being wholly committed to the Arab cause, had no diplomatic relations with Israel. But to make progress Kissinger also had to deal with an Arab leader who possessed both courage and imagination. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat turned out to be that kind...