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...girl was taken to live with relatives in Jordan. She is said to be well. Nothing on four-year-old Samer or the baby Palestine yet, but Ahmed has been located. He is posted somewhere on the front and is a full-fledged soldier now. His older brother Farouk will try to track him down. Farouk is more self-assured than Ahmed, a bit colder as well. At 31, he holds a high rank in Al-Fatah, the largest faction within the P.L.O. He says very little at first, sizing up the stranger. Their taxi rolls past...
...several of the family have gathered-sisters, brothers-in-law and their children. Soldiers saunter in. The discussion starts out focusing on Ahmed's whereabouts, and soon splinters into everything, from the Syrians to the weather to abstract politics. An old soldier suggests: "People are better than governments." Farouk gets an idea where Ahmed might be, and the taxi is off again, passing a mosque with a charred black wall on which some child has painted a bright blue plane dropping bright blue bombs. Rubbish burning everywhere heats the air from below as the relentless sun works from...
...identity, native. If we lose our identity, we lose everything." When pressed for a choice between reason and honor, he says, after some thought: "If I have to make priorities, I would choose honor first, but I don't know the answer, really." Sitting beside his brother, Farouk adds: "I would never place logic before dignity...
Reinstated in the army in 1950, Sadat joined Nasser in the coup that toppled King Farouk two years later. Sadat held a variety of posts under Nasser, distinguishing himself mainly by a slavish obedience that led colleagues to dub him "Nasser's poodle." Nasser apparently appreciated his docile loyalty and named him Vice President in 1969. A year later, Nasser was dead of a heart attack and the little-known Sadat became President...
...proposal evoked anger among Israeli officials. Interior Minister Yosef Burg, who is also Jerusalem's chief negotiator at the stalled talks on Palestinian autonomy, called it "a complete contradiction to the spirit of Camp David." For that matter, the P.L.O. evinced no excitement about the idea. Farouk Kaddoumi, the P.L.O.'s unofficial foreign minister, called the time "inopportune" for such a government, adding that "we do not place any trust in Sadat." American analysts interpreted Sadat's proposal as an attempt "at keeping all the options open" that offered little chance of immediate success...