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...week ended, leaders from all over the world gathered in Cairo to pay final tribute to Anwar Sadat. Francois Mitterrand and Helmut Schmidt were there, as were Prince Charles, Begin and Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri...
Today the American people stand beside the Egyptian people, the people of a new nation with the people of an ancient land. We stand together in mourning the loss of Anwar Sadat and rededicating ourselves to the cause for which he so willingly gave his life...
There are moments in history when the martyrdom of a single life can symbolize all that is wrong with an age and all that is right about humanity. Anwar Sadat, a man of peace in a time of violence, understood his age. In his final moments, as he had in all his days, he stood in defiance of the enemies of peace, the enemies of humanity. Today those of us who follow him can do no less. And so to those who rejoice in the death of Anwar Sadat, to those who seek to set class against class, nation against...
...have been, as Anwar Sadat would have believed, the hand of fate that brutally tore him from the world stage. That same hand narrowly bypassed Sadat's most attentive pupil and long-chosen successor, who was at the President's side when the bullets slammed into the reviewing stand. Hosni Mubarak, 53, Egypt's Vice President since Sadat picked him for the post in 1975, emerged from the assault with no more than a bandaged left hand as a memento of his narrow escape...
...broadcasts of Radio Tripoli hailing the killing were so intense that, in his judgment, they must have been prepared ahead of time. In a rare public moment of harsh sorrow, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger declared on television that if Libya had been "taken care of," Egyptian President Anwar Sadat might still be alive...