Word: hosni
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From the chaos of the assassination scene, the Egyptian leadership moved swiftly to secure an orderly transition. At 5 p.m. Tuesday, scarcely two hours after the fallen President had been pronounced dead at the Maadi Military Hospital, the Cabinet met in emergency session and unanimously appointed Vice President Hosni Mubarak as Prime Minister and supreme commander of the armed forces. It was Mubarak, a member of the "October Generation," as Sadat called the participants in the October 1973 war, whom the late President had been grooming as his successor for the past seven years. The next day the People...
...Anwar Sadat would have believed, the hand of fate that brutally tore him from the world stage. That same hand narrowly bypassed Sadat's most attentive pupil and long-chosen successor, who was at the President's side when the bullets slammed into the reviewing stand. Hosni Mubarak, 53, Egypt's Vice President since Sadat picked him for the post in 1975, emerged from the assault with no more than a bandaged left hand as a memento of his narrow escape...
Barely 48 hours after the assassination, President-designate Hosni Mubarak was interviewed by TIME Correspondents Wilton Wynn and Robert C. Wurmstedt. Excerpts...
...Middle East. Last August two Libyan jets fired upon (and were destroyed) by U.S. F-14 Tomcats over the Gulf of Sidra. Most important, Gaddafi is in the forefront of those Arabs who oppose the Camp David accords. That makes him an automatic opponent of any Egyptian leader, including Hosni Mubarak, who intends to continue Sadat's peace initiative. Says a British analyst: "There is an irrationality in Gaddafi's makeup that defies explanation, and makes it virtually impossible to correctly assess his policies by any normal yardstick...
...uncertainty swamped their syntax. Pointing out a prostrate figure in the first still photograph of the shooting at 12:02 p.m. E.D.T., CBS's Rather said, "It is believed, reportedly, supposedly, allegedly, President Sadat in the lower right hand corner of this photograph." Finally, Egyptian Vice President Hosni Mubarak in a statement at about 2 p.m. officially confirmed the news of Sadat's death. Shortly before 3 p.m., the shocking images of the carnage captured by ABC Cameraman Fabrice Moussos were transmitted by satellite on all three networks and made available to 120 foreign networks. At first, however...