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...both a witness to many of the major events in Egypt's recent history and one of the primary figures who shaped them. Born on Christmas Day, 1918, in the Nile village of Mit Abu el Kom, he was inspired as a youth by the exploits of Kemal Atatürk, the father of modern Turkey. Sadat was twice imprisoned for his revolutionary activities-the second time, in 1946, for complicity in the murder of a former minister in King Farouk's government. As the founder of the Free Officers' Organization within the Egyptian army, Sadat...
...sense of survival run directly back to his village roots. One of 13 children, he was born on Christmas Day 59 years ago in the little (then pop. 2,000) Nile settlement of Mit Abu el Kom. His father was a military hospital clerk who so much admired Kemal Atatūrk, the founder of modern Turkey, that he named his sons after Turkish officers. His mother was an illiterate Sudanese. He grew up hating the colonial British. When the upper-class Military Academy was opened up in 1936 to all Egyptians-a decision that changed the future...
...VIEW OF HIMSELF. With all the respect I have for [Turkey's] Atatürk, he was living in his time, as my father was living in his time. Neither of them made land reform. But I have. Neither of them thought of workers participating in profits and being co-owners of factories. That is why I say we do not have to copy anybody, any ideology. We have enough brains to devise what is best for ourselves...
...turn ing Saudi Arabia into the Middle East's most advanced wel fare state. Like the late King, he feels the country should be run in a paternalistic and authoritarian style - and that political evolution should be deliberately paced. "Our approach is ex actly opposite to that of Atatürk of Turkey," Fahd told friends recently. "Atatürk imposed changes on his people from the top. We try to act as a catalyst, giving the people a glimpse of change and letting them decide to accept...
Died. Ismet Inönü, 89, first Prime Minister of modern Turkey; of a heart attack; in Ankara. When the Sultan was deposed and Turkey became a republic in 1923, Kemal Atatürk as President and Inönü as Prime Minister abolished the semireligious office of Caliph and began to westernize the country's educational, legal, military and industrial systems. Inönü was elected President in 1938 and served until his defeat in the election of 1950. From 1961 to 1965 he was once again Premier; after leaving office he continued to influence...