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...late Anwar Sadat in 1974 launched al infitah (the opening), a much heralded attempt to promote foreign investment by lifting restrictions on trade and the movement of currency. In addition, the government promised that the peace treaty Egypt signed with Israel in March 1979 would lead to a business boom. Said the billboards in Cairo at the time: PEACE EQUALS PROSPERITY...
After leaving Oman at dawn, the homeward-bound group stopped in Cairo for its meeting with President Mubarak, who had succeeded the assassinated Anwar Sadat only three weeks before. Mubarak stressed his determination to rebuild relations with his estranged Arab brothers, and appealed for more U.S. investment in Egypt's troubled economy...
FIVE GROUPS PARTICIPATED IN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION TO SEIZE POWER, cried the headline in Cairo's semiofficial newspaper Al Ahram. Last week, in a kind of interim report on its investigations into the assassination of Anwar Sadat, government officials said the plot was far wider than had originally been suspected. Right after the killing, officials had insisted that only four men were involved. But according to President Hosni Mubarak, who succeeded Sadat, at least 700 people were part of a web of revolutionaries whose general aim was to overthrow the government. Said Mubarak: "Security in our country is my first...
...effort from National Security Adviser Richard Allen. They decided that the issue did not lend itself to the type of televised presidential appeal that worked so well on the economic package. Instead, the Administration opted for one-on-one personal appeals to wavering Senators. The assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in early October helped unsettle many of the sale opponents, and prompted immediate support from Republicans Orrin Hatch of Utah and Alan Simpson of Wyoming...
Nixon's big moves in foreign policy were the most spectacular in a quarter-century. He and Kissinger made the historic opening to China, proclaimed detente with the Soviets and negotiated SALT I, and broke through the Arab front to do business with Anwar Sadat. At the least, these will always be remembered as bold initiatives, whether for long-term good or ill we cannot be sure-the returns...