Word: jehan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ghazala to his left. For three days before the parade, security personnel had inspected every rifle, every truck, every tank that would be in the march, to make sure that no live ammunition would be issued. Now the security men were combing the arriving invited guests with metal detectors. Jehan Sadat, the President's elegant wife, 48, had brought her grandchildren and was watching from a glass enclosure at the top of the stand; it was the first time she had taken the youngsters to a public event. Abu Ghazala launched the proceedings with a speech praising Egypt's armed...
Amid the screams and shouts of the terrified crowd, Abu Ghazala radioed a military facility near by for a helicopter to pick up the stricken President. It arrived three or four minutes later in an area behind the reviewing stand. Jehan Sadat, who had watched the assault unfold from her box, tried to rush to her husband's side, but was pushed down forcefully by her security guard. She finally reached Sadat's side as he was lifted on a stretcher into the helicopter for the 20-minute flight to Maadi Military Hospital, south of Cairo, where the deposed Shah...
...after the attack began, and that it was due to "violent nervous shock and internal bleeding in the chest cavity, where the left lung and major blood vessels below it were torn." A doctor emerged from the operating room, his face streaked with tears, to break the news to Jehan Sadat. "Only God," he said, "is immortal." ? By William Drozdiak. Reported by Robert C Wurmstedt and Wilton Wynn /Cairo
...must have seemed like old times for Jimmy Carter, 56, and Anwar Sadat, 62. Winding up a six-day U.S. visit, the Egyptian leader detoured to Plains, Ga., to see his "deep friend." The reunion was all harmony and grits. Out on the old softball field, with Rosalynn and Jehan looking on, Jimmy presented Sadat with a glass sculpture of a laurel wreath. Sadat was at his gracious best, although Carter's detractors will doubtless delight in misconstruing his words. Said he: "Jimmy Carter has left his fingerprints on the history...
...Every time I visit Chicago, I have new ideas to take back to Cairo," said Jehan Sadat, 47, in the Windy City last week before wrapping up her two-week, seven-city good-will tour of the U.S. Egypt's First Lady was particularly "happy to see that the mayor of Chicago is a woman." For Sadat's accomplishments in the "advancement of women's rights in Egypt" and "commitment to social causes," she received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the city's DePaul University. "Women are now contributing significantly in Egypt," she observed...