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...Wilton Wynn was walking to his office in Rome when he recalled that exactly eight years ago to the day, he had been urgently summoned to Egypt to cover a war; Anwar Sadat's Egyptian army had crossed the Suez. Only hours later, Wynn was again summoned to Cairo, this time to cover carnage of a different kind: the assassination of Sadat. It was a haunting journey for a man who had spent eleven years as a correspondent in Egypt and dozens of hours in intimate talk with its slain leader. It was one of many dramatic experiences...
...staring at Sadat's fallen presidential photographer, who had "blood streaming from his face." Later, via telephone with NBC's Tom Brokaw in New York, Iverson was one of the first eyewitnesses to describe the scene to an anxious U.S. TV audience. Meanwhile, Wynn and Cairo Bureau Chief Robert C. Wurmstedt lined up an interview with Egypt's new leader, Hosni Mubarak, and Correspondents Roland Flamini and Jack White arrived from Bonn and Nairobi to profile the assassins and follow the funeral preparations...
...week's end, though, worries about Egypt's stability had been somewhat allayed, as the government in Cairo moved to fill the void. Egypt's parliament endorsed Vice President Hosni Mubarak to succeed Sadat, and the nation will probably affirm that choice in a referendum next week...
Yesterday, Haig led an American delegation to Cairo for today's funeral. Included in the entourage were former presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon, as well as Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger '38, former secretary of state Henry A. Kissinger, and top congressional officials. Reagan decided not to attend for security reasons...
...modest success, a resumption of the Palestinian autonomy negotiations after a hiatus of 16 months. Representatives of Egypt, Israel and the U.S. assembled in Cairo last week amid the usual displays of friendship and expressions of optimism. At the close of a two-day meeting at the Mena House Hotel, near the Giza pyramids, they announced a schedule for continuing discussions concerning that most difficult of unresolved questions, the nature of the "full autonomy" promised the Palestinian Arabs of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip under the Camp David accords. The plan is for diplomats of the three...