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...around the assassination of Anwar Sadat was dense with fatal ironies. In martial finery, the Nobel Peace prizewinner sat admiring his nation's annual celebration of force; it was the anniversary of the 1973 day when Egypt plunged across the Suez Canal to break Israel's Bar Lev Line. Now death jumped out of his beloved army's line of march...
...President Anwar Sadat, 62, hailed by his countrymen as the "Hero of the Crossing," the anniversary had special meaning. His decision to strike across the canal in 1973 had transformed his reputation at home and abroad from that of a mere transition figure to that of a leader, daring enough to go to war in order to seek peace. In that sense, Oct. 6, 1973, had been the first step on his historic journey to Jerusalem and a peace treaty with Israel...
...nightmare had come true: the sudden, terrifying death of the beleaguered, valiant, seemingly indispensable Anwar Sadat. In a week of anger and disbelief, the assassinated Egyptian leader was hailed in the U.S., in Western Europe, in Israel and elsewhere as a man of courage and peace. In a few Arab capitals, where he had never been forgiven for signing a peace treaty with Israel, his death was greeted with cheers and celebration, a burst of joy that much of the rest of the world considered obscene. And throughout a week that culminated in a somber state funeral Saturday, there were...
...lost "not only a partner in the peace process but also a friend"; from Bonn, where Chancellor Helmut Schmidt spoke of his "bewilderment and horror"; from Tokyo, where the government called Sadat "a great gladiator for peace"?and from two men who had been more fortunate than Anwar Sadat. In St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, Pope John Paul II, who was struck by a bullet just five months ago, spoke of his "emotion and pain." And in Washington, Ronald Reagan, who had decided not to attend the Sadat funeral because of security considerations, greeted the three living...
...life you feared Anwar Sadat, but in death you must fear him more. For the memory of this good and brave man will vanquish...