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...afternoon on the day of Sadat's assassination, White House aides had decided that Ronald Reagan could not risk attending the services. The hazard to Vice President George Bush might be just as grave. Out of necessity came a unique act of national unity and historical significance: the launching of the plane of Presidents toward Cairo...
...Hosni Mubarak, he said he wished he did not have to attend the parade. Mubarak urged him to stay at home and rest. But Sadat's sense of duty won out. He would go, and afterward, in his Nile Delta home village of Mit Abu el Kom, visit the grave of his brother Atif, a pilot killed on the first day of the October War. Dressed as Egypt's Supreme Commander in a field marshal's gold-braided blue uniform festooned with a green sash, Sadat made a traditional stop on the way to the parade, paying his respects...
...Forgive me for saying this, but you're causing the President grave concern," said the scolding letter. President Ronald Reagan, it continued, "personally asked me to find out why you're holding back." The letter, sent out in September by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, over the signature of its chairman, Senator Robert Packwood of Oregon, was intended to raise funds for G.O.P. senatorial candidates. But the hectoring, heavyhanded hard sell was too much for White House Political Director Lyn Nofziger, who axed the appeal and labeled it "the limit of fund-raising hyperbole." Packwood...
Losing one's temper at times, even unjustly, doesn't make a parent a monster. I'm not necessarily an admirer of Joan Crawford, but my sympathy lies with her for not being able to strike back at her accuser from the grave...
Edinburgh's cargo was not forgotten either. After 1957, Britain lifted the ban on salvage operations that had been in effect because of the ship's war grave status. Several costly searches for the cruiser were made by British, Norwegian and Russian companies to no avail, since both British and German records had mistaken the wreck's actual location. But last week a team of civilian divers was laboriously bringing to the surface 23-lb. gold bars taken from the cruiser's ammunition room. It quickly became one of the most lucrative deep-sea salvage missions...