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While continuing to fight for the Saudi deal on Capitol Hill, the Administration also moved rapidly to send a strong signal of support to both Egypt and its beleaguered neighbor, the Sudan, which is threatened by the presence of 7,000 Libyan troops in nearby Chad. After conferring in Cairo with Mubarak and Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri following Sadat's funeral, Secretary of State Alexander Haig announced that the U.S. would speed up the delivery of arms already promised to Egypt and the Sudan. In addition, Washington last week dispatched two AW ACS planes from the U.S. to Egypt...
There had been nothing quite like it in American history: three former Presidents sharing the cabin of an Air Force jet as they flew to the funeral of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Cairo. From talks with many of the dignitaries aboard the plane, TIME'S Washington Contributing Editor Hugh Sidey put together the following account of their extraordinary mission of mourning...
...attacked him. White House sources at first characterized Sadat's injuries as "not life threatening." As late as 9:57 a.m. E.D.T., former U.S. President Jimmy Carter assured CBS's Rather over a telephone hookup from Plains, Ga., that his diplomatic sources in Cairo had just told him "President Sadat will be all right...
Thus Rather was visibly taken aback when, at 10:26 a.m. E.D.T., Cairo Bureau Manager Scotti Williston told him by phone, on the air, that her sources were reporting "that the President has passed away." Wary of repeating the egregious blunder that all three networks made in reporting the death of Reagan Press Secretary James Brady on the day the President was shot last March, an agitated Rather kept pressing Williston, hard. Were her sources reliable? They were, said the imperturbable Williston, who, before her assignment to Cairo in 1979, was CBS News' deputy foreign editor. No official word...
...dozens of world leaders converged on Cairo for the Egyptian President's funeral in the following days, they were joined by some 800 journalists, who set about documenting the still touchy aftermath of the assassination. But Cronkite and CBS held the edge a bit longer, delivering the first film interview with Sadat's successor, Mubarak. It was a masterly portrait of a strong adjutant struggling to fill the shoes of a giant, a mentor Mubarak admitted he is still unable to believe has left him. Many viewers felt the same way. -By Janice Castro. Reported by Janice...