Word: anwar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Obviously in preparation for the Kissinger talks, the Soviet Union dispatched Kosygin to Cairo, where he conferred with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. There were unconfirmed reports that Kosygin made specific proposals for a peace plan, including a "partial" Israeli pullback from the 1967 cease-fire lines and a DMZ, separating Israel from its neighbors, that would be patrolled by U.N. troops, some of them from the U.S. and Russia. Kosygin had been back in Moscow for only a few hours before Kissinger...
...already clear that the Arabs had never fought better against the Israelis. No longer were they so likely to be dismissed as powerless and posturing giants too weak to defeat the tiniest of neighbors. The extraordinary flowering of Arab machismo was dynamically expressed by Nasser's successor, President Anwar Sadat, in a speech before Egypt's People's Assembly (see box page 29). "No matter what happens in the desert, there has been a victory that cannot be erased," said Sadat. "According to any military standard, the Egyptian armed forces have realized a miracle. The wounded nation...
...mood in Egypt, on the other hand, was initially one of elation and even amazement. That spirit of confidence was fueled in part, by the rhetoric of Egypt's President Mohamed Anwar Sadat, often maligned even by his own people. Scarcely three weeks ago, Egyptians scoffed when President Sadat publicly warned that "the stage of total confrontation" was soon to begin. After all, it was a claim that he had made many times before and never acted upon. But last week, as Egyptian forces surged across the Suez Canal into the Sinai, thousands of Sadat's countrymen lined...
...Anwar Sadat inherited this process and made it his own. He was frustrated by his troubles with the superpowers and by the Arabs' continuing divisions and limitations, and he was hampered by his own credibility gap: he could not mobilize the Arabs because none of them believed he was serious about doing so. In the end Sadat precipitated a war that he nicknamed Operation Spark-a desperate gamble that through adversity the Arab world might find its real strength...
...since the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1970 has the Arab world been so moved by eloquence and inspiration. Speaking last week to Egypt's People's Assembly, President Anwar Sadat talked of the country's aims in war and peace. Excerpts...