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...their references to the Libyan leader, U.S. officials seemed to strike a ritualistic note of scorn and horror: Muammar Gaddafi* is not only a menace and a promoter of terrorism but a lunatic as well. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat used to call him "that crazy boy," but the consensus of most Middle East analysts is that Gaddafi is as crazy as a fox. To be sure, he is an erratic and irascible revolutionary, convinced of his own genius and wholly committed to spreading his own political gospel, an eccentric mix of Islam and socialism that is summed...
...grave robbing, the Indian war cries should come as no surprise. Only a few months ago, militant Orthodox Jews in Israel clashed with police during protests against excavations in an area of Old Jerusalem considered sacred ground, a medieval Hebrew cemetery. A year before his death, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat urged that Cairo's collection of mummies be closed to the public and eventually reburied. They were not merely objects of scientific or public curiosity but hallowed human remains and thus deserving of respect...
...that dramatic public confession, First Lieut. Khaled Ahmed Shawki Islambuli, 24, a stocky artillery officer in the Egyptian army, last week told a three-judge military tribunal how he had assassinated President Anwar Sadat during a military parade on Oct. 6. Islambuli is accused of leading the four-man hit team that jumped out of a truck during the parade and charged the reviewing stand, firing automatic weapons and hurling grenades. Seven other people died in the attack, and 28 were wounded...
...honest folk at Southland Corporation, though, have done their best to keep some measure of realism in Christmas 1981. Ronald Reagan, John Paul II, Anwar Sadat all were felled by gunmen this year; what, then, could be more topical, more true to life, than a board game called "Assassin...
...with Henry Kissinger in Vladivostok to work out a SALT agreement or sending the Marines after the Mayaguez? Ten to one for peace. And Jimmy Carter will never come closer to heaven in this life than when he flew back from Camp David to announce that Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat had accepted his peace accords...