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Rightful Heir. The climax of Sadat's diplomatic maneuvering took place last month, when he met in Cairo with Syria's President Hafez Assad and persuaded him to join in a plan of limited war. The two leaders also staged a reconciliation with Jordan's King Hussein and accepted him as a limited partner in the coming battle; they apparently agreed, however, that Jordan was too vulnerable to Israeli airpower to warrant direct Jordanian intervention. The Palestinians were not directly involved in the planning, but Sadat announced that he favored the establishment of a Palestinian state. Both...
...profited from Nasser's mistakes. Where Nasser tended to divide the Arab world and constantly quarreled with fellow leaders, Sadat has worked toward consensus and has ended much of the feuding that formerly went on. He put the latest operation together, first by getting Syrian President Hafez Assad to agree to his invasion plans, and then by restoring King Hus sein to a position of importance in the Arab world (he had been in bad graces since his 1970 crackdown on the Palestinian guerrillas). With unity achieved, Sadat was ready for battle...
...Syrian military academy, Tlas began his career as an army regular, while at the same time becoming a prominent figure in the Baath Party. In the split between military and civilian factions that developed in the Syrian leadership, Tlas sided with the army, throwing his weight behind President Hafez Assad in the latter's 1970 coup. Since then he and Assad have concentrated their attention on improving the quality of Syria's armed forces, with Tlas traveling to Moscow, Peking and, most recently, Hanoi in quest of military equipment and advice...
Tlas is popular with the armed forces in part because of his unflinching policy of retaliation against Israeli attacks. Since 1970 he and Assad have consistently favored a coordinated command with Egypt, a policy that led directly to the two-front assault on the occupied territories on Yom Kippur...
President Anwar Sadat of Egypt said in a message delivered in his name to a Moscow meeting that he and President Hafez Assad of Syria are fighting "a war of liberation with the objective of establishing a just peace...