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Once the Salzburg meetings ended, Sadat was eager to speed home to preside over one of the most jubilant moments of his 4½ years as Egypt's President-the Suez reopening (see box page 28). Sadat is aware of the canal's economic potential for Egypt's 37 million hard-pressed people. He is aiming to repopulate the canal's shores and has established a giant free-trade zone around Port Said to lure industry and generate jobs...
Sadat is even more aware of the canal's diplomatic symbolism. With Israeli forces positioned ten miles from the waterway's east bank, and strong enough to close the canal virtually at will despite the presence of Egyptian forces along the east bank, Sadat more or less is offering the canal as a hostage to peace. He hopes that its opening will prove to be the kind of winding down of the state of belligerency that Israel has been pressing...
Arab Spokesman. To preserve his political position both internally and with his fellow Arab leaders, Sadat is barring passage to vessels flying the Israeli flag. Some time between the canal's reopening and next week's Ford-Rabin talks, however, the Israelis might attempt to send through a ship flying another country's flag but carrying Israeli cargo. Despite official Egyptian pronouncements to the contrary, Sadat has quietly ordered canal authorities to let such nonstrategic cargo through...
...more aware than Sadat of the precarious political path along which he is walking and the fateful consequences of any misstep. If war erupts anew, the canal would be quickly blocked. A prolonged deadlock in peace talks could eventually also spell the end of Arab moderation and possibly of Anwar Sadat as well. Balancing this threat, however, is a conclusion that Sadat reached long ago. The 1973 war may have restored Arab pride (even though, after initial successes, the Arab armies took a beating), but in the end peace is necessary to help Egypt's stumbling economy. Unless...
...result, Sadat in his travels through the Middle East must beg for funds even as he is trying to solidify his position as spokesman for all the Arab people. So far, he has had some success. Several new housing cities are rising alongside the Suez Canal as part of a rebuilding program that goes hand in hand with canal renovations: Faisal City, named for the late King of Saudi Arabia; Sabah City for the Sheik of Kuwait; Zayed City in honor of Abu Dhabi's Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al Nahayan...