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...regime of President Hosni Mubarak; of a heart attack, following a seizure three weeks ago that was aggravated by his refusal to follow doctors' orders to abandon strict fasting during the holy month of Ramadan; in Cairo. A Deputy Prime Minister under President Anwar Sadat, Mohieddin formed the first Mubarak Cabinet after Sadat's assassination in October 1981. Though Mubarak praised him as having done his duty "to perfection," the Prime Minister had been criticized for his purported reluctance to carry out democratic reforms the President had advocated...
...existence of a CIA pipeline to the mujahedin has long been an open secret. President Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, publicly took credit for setting up the arms flow to the Afghan rebels in 1979. Shortly before his death in 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat acknowledged that the U.S. was using Egypt to ship weapons to Afghanistan. During a visit to Pakistan last year, Secretary of State George Shultz went so far as to tell several thousand Afghan refugees, "You fight valiantly, and your spirit inspires the world. I want you to know that...
Mubarak's aim in holding free elections was not only to legitimize the government he inherited after Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981 . The existence of a genuine opposition enables him to spread responsibility for difficult policy measures, including much needed economic reforms. Mubarak also wanted to prove that Egyptians are as capable of holding democratic elections as their neighbors, the Israelis, who go to the polls next month...
...helped convict Alger Hiss, an ex-State Department official and accused Communist spy, of perjury in 1950; a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. civilian award. Chambers, who died in 1961, was one of 14 recipients of this year's medal. Others included the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the late baseball great Jackie Robinson, Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr., Actor James Cagney, Country Singer Tennessee Ernie Ford, Writer Louis L'Amour and the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale...
...film, which stars Louis Gossett Jr., 47, contained "historical errors that distort the accomplishments of the Egyptian people," Radwan banned from his country not only Sadat but all films produced or distributed by Columbia Pictures. Egyptian objections to the four-hour movie are not so much that Anwar Sadat is played by a black actor, as some reports have suggested, but that accents are often Pakistani rather than Egyptian; some of the garb worn is found in Morocco, not Egypt; Nasser is shown kissing Sadat's wife, an abominated Westernism. Moreover, to the Egyptians the film seems to tilt...