Word: hawadess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continuing puzzles of the Middle East has been why Egypt's President Anwar Sadat suddenly expelled his Soviet military advisers last summer -and why they left in such haste. Last week, in an interview that appeared in the Beirut magazine al Hawadess ("Events"), Sadat provided a rare insight into that historic moment: "1 told the Russians that they must end their military presence in Egypt before the morning of July 18. As to the equipment and installations, I said, "Sell them or take them with you.' " The Soviets managed to meet the deadline with 20 hours to spare...
...three-hour interview in Cairo with al Hawadess Editor-Publisher Salim Louzi, Sadat described with unusual frankness the reasoning behind his sudden decision. He had decided that another war with Israel was inevitable and that "the Russian military presence would render a big strategic service to Israel when the battle begins. Israel would then say that it was fighting the Russians, not the Arabs, and would thus win over the Americans and even European public opinion. This meant that the Russians had become a burden...
...strike in depth when Israel strikes at us in depth, and so we may not have to resort to kamikaze operations." Sadat had wanted the MIG-23, the hottest new airplane in the Soviet air force. "We have tested the MIG-23 here in Egypt," he told al Hawadess. "It flew more than once deep into Israel and took photographs. It has been proved that neither the Phantom nor the American-made missiles can reach the altitude of the MIG-23." If Egypt had got such a plane, Sadat intimated, the Middle East would be hotter now than...
...predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser. The Egyptian army had not been properly trained under Nasser to fight an offensive war, Sadat declared-and it had also become too political. "The Egyptian army should have been converted to a fighting army after the 1956 Suez war," Sadat told al Hawadess. Egypt at that point had suffered a military setback, "but we turned it into a political victory" (when President Eisenhower forced Britain, France and Israel to desist in their combined attack on Egypt...
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