Word: anwar
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...returns the rest of the Sinai peninsula to Egypt in April, "Egypt will go back into [the] Arab world, with [the] U.S. isolated as Israel's sole defender." Egypt's position, he said, is "180° different" under Hosni Mubarak than it had been under slain President Anwar Sadat...
...next day there was a brief stop in Cairo to call on the father of disengagement, Anwar Sadat. He was already thinking of the future. The road was now open to larger steps toward peace and to accelerating the shift of his diplomacy toward Washington. He called me a "magician"; I said he had made me one, which was true...
...Israeli (and American) analysis before October 1973 agreed that Egypt and Syria lacked the capability to regain their territory by force of arms; hence it was assumed they would not attack. The premises were correct. The conclusions were not. What literally no one understood beforehand was the mind of Anwar Sadat. In his view, serious diplomacy was impossible while Israel considered itself militarily supreme and Egypt was paralyzed by humiliation. In 1972 he expelled Soviet troops from his country because of the disrespect shown by Soviet leaders toward Egyptians but above all because they would surely seek to impede...
Peace and prosperity: Anwar Sadat used to argue that if he could only achieve the first, the second would follow. But when the Egyptian President was slain last October, the peace he had achieved and enshrined in a treaty with Israel was all but overshadowed at home by a bitter polarization between self-interested rich and resentful poor...
...Reagans were hit with hurricane force by the shootings of Pope John Paul II and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, something beyond their imaginations even after Ronald Reagan himself was wounded. They were lofted to heights of delight by Ella Fitzgerald and Lionel Hampton, two entertainers at the White House who took them way back when...