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Puffing contentedly on his pipe, President Anwar Sadat gazed out the window of Egyptian 01 at one of the Israeli Kfir fighters that escorted him part of the way from Tel Aviv to Cairo. "Just look at what has changed in only 40 hours," he said. "Did you ever dream that Anwar Sadat would be received as a hero in Israel...
Although Washington was surprised by these events, the U.S. readily agreed to serve as "postman"?the good-natured term of Ambassador Samuel Lewis in Jerusalem. At the Knesset, Lewis picked up the formal invitation that Sadat had requested. The message was cabled from the embassy in Tel Aviv to Ambassador Hermann Eilts in Cairo?with, of course, a copy to Washington. Eilts in turn personally delivered the invitation to Sadat and cabled back to Jerusalem the Egyptian President's affirmative response...
...read the newspapers; he frequently calls editors to complain about "unfair" criticism. He is at his desk by 7. His rambling official residence in Jerusalem is almost too big for him and Wife Aliza, 57, now that two of their three children are married. They also have a Tel Aviv apartment, where he used to hold open house for friends. It is perhaps his only regret as Premier that he has had to curtail such evenings...
TIME's Cairo bureau chief, Wilton Wynn, was the only American magazine journalist aboard the plane that flew Sadat from Abu Suweir Airport near Ismailia to Tel Aviv. A special guest of the Egyptian President, Wynn cabled from Jerusalem this account of the historic flight...
...network's Tel Aviv bureau manager, Joel Bernstein, caught up with Begin 6½ hr. later at the city's Hilton hotel. Bernstein led Begin to a room that CBS had hastily rented and equipped with a satellite link to New York. Cronkite and Begin then taped a long-distance interview; 2½ min. of highlights were fitted together with 3½ min. of Cronkite's earlier Sadat interview and broadcast that night on the Evening News. "I don't see anything extraordinary about it," says Cronkite. "It was just a normal day's work...