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...Anwar Sadat has been ridiculed in many countries. Only the rarest person can rise above prejudice, false pride and dignity, and embrace former enemies to further peace and the brotherhood of mankind. The Egyptian President's memory should be enshrined, and he should be awarded a perpetual peace prize...
...Anwar Sadat is being mourned by Americans because he was good for America. But, after all, he was the President of Egypt, an Arab country. The true mark of a leader is whether or not he is mourned by his own people...
Good leaders are those who ride the flow of events and direct their people's energies along that current. Great leaders are those who change the flow and rechannel it to the most productive direction despite the dangers politically and otherwise. Anwar Sadat was that kind of leader, and the likes of men with his vision and foresight are few and far between in the long history...
...Saudis with adequate defenses. The sale would not shift the balance of military strength in the Middle East away from Israel, and it would provide the Saudis with a token of American reliability. Finally, the protection of the remaining moderate Arab states after the assassination of Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was essential to the interests of Israel as well as to those...
...midnight. But has the Administration learned anything from the near fiasco? Once again, unfortunately, portents are mixed. The Administration still shows a propensity to opt for ill-considered military solutions to complex diplomatic problems. For example, the first reaction by Washington to the assassination of Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was to increase the size of a U.S. training exercise in the Egyptian desert scheduled for November. Operation Bright Star is being scaled down, in apparent recognition that so suffocating a U.S. embrace could only embarrass Sadat's successor...