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Averted Arrest. Sadat may have been forced to move more quickly than he intended. He had been planning a double family celebration-his wife's birthday and a daughter's wedding anniversary-for the night the upheaval took place. The party was canceled. That afternoon, TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott spent almost an hour at the presidential mansion and found no atmosphere of impending crisis...
...native insecurity and compelled him to backtrack and reverse many of the central policy recommendations. Nor were many aspects of the policy startling or innovative in themselves; the considerations surrounding the bomb and limited war had already been outlined in part by the work of Bernard Brodie, James Gavin, and Edward Teller, and the sections on diplomatic flexibility borrowed heavily from Metternich and the conferees at Vienna. The book's real departure was its fusing of diplomatic concerns with the theory of nuclear war: the result was a potent, hard-line combina-tion of cajolery, threat, and physical force...
While in Cairo, Kriss interviewed a number of government officials and came away impressed by Arab officialdom's penchant for privacy. "Getting permission to take a picture anywhere in Cairo," says Kriss, "can be a feat in itself." Beirut Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, who did most of the reporting for the cover story, has become inured to this sort of thing; last week he was making his 25th visit to Cairo in 18 months. "Blind censorship is rigorous," says Scott. "You never know what's been subtracted from outgoing cables-or added for that matter. Despite such hazards...
...Middle East, political prospects are always hazardous to predict. Nonetheless, cabled TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott from Cairo: "As long as diplomacy remains credible to Egyptians, Sadat's authority will remain unchallenged. His turn to the West, balanced by effusive May Day thanks to the Kremlin and motions toward Arab federation, is highly popular. Educated Egyptians have no taste for falling under the political influence of Moscow. Tentative as they are, the signs of rapprochement with Washington are gratifying." Now it remains to be seen whether Sadat will give Washington comparable cause for gratification by sincerely pressing the pursuit of peace...
...more elevated level, James M. Gavin, a retired lieutenant general who was a distinguished paratroop commander in World War II, warns that "junior