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...week ended, leaders from all over the world gathered in Cairo to pay final tribute to Anwar Sadat. Francois Mitterrand and Helmut Schmidt were there, as were Prince Charles, Begin and Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri...
...accept MiG-23 fighters, "even if the Russians give them to us free.") He shares Sadat's instinctive, pro-Western orientation. Mubarak's wife of 21 years, Suzanne, is of both British and Egyptian descent; she is a social sciences graduate of the American University of Cairo. Mubarak's two sons, Alaa, 20, and Gamal, 17, are American University students...
...advantages of U.S. vs. Soviet military equipment. American quality is much more advanced than that of the Soviets. In the October War we were fighting with old technology against new, sophisticated technology. We hadn't a single plane that could reach Israel. The Israelis could reach Cairo, and that gave our people complexes...
...Cairo's chaos heightens concern over the Gaddafi regime...
...impact of the Cairo tragedy softened, so did the language. Both Haig and Egyptian officials on closer examination declared that direct Libyan involvement seemed unlikely. But Libyan jubilation over the killing heightened U.S. perceptions of Egypt's next-door neighbor as an outlaw state and an increasingly bothersome trouble spot. Said a U.S. State Department official: "Libya is beginning to rival the Persian Gulf as the focus of strategic concern in the region. Now that Egypt, the only certain counterweight to Libya, is under a cloud, that concern can only increase...