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Complaints are not ordinarily aimed directly at Sadat but at prominent people close to him. Among the prime targets is Osman Ahmed Osman, the millionaire contractor whose son Mahmud is married to Sadat's daughter Jihan. Osman has a brilliant record as a builder-he was chief contractor for the Aswan High Dam, and did much of the reconstruction of the ruined Suez Canal zone-but his vast wealth and his influence over Sadat invite attacks by the opposition, mainly on corruption charges. Because Osman is his closest friend and adviser, Sadat knows that these attacks are really aimed...
...said. His main destination, of course, after a brief stopover in Morocco, was Washington. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was on hand, along with the red-uniformed Marine Band, to welcome the Egyptian leader to Andrews Air Force Base late Friday afternoon. Sadat, accompanied by his elegant wife, Jihan, his 21-year-old son, Gamal, and two of his six daughters, Noha, 20, and Jihan, 17, saluted the American Secretary, then ducked into an Air Force helicopter for the hop to the South Lawn of the White House. There Jimmy Carter rushed to embrace him. In a brief statement, Sadat...
Released from prison in 1948 and cashiered out of the Egyptian army, Sadat took any job he could land: baggage porter, truck driver, used-tire dealer. By now he was divorced from his first wife and in 1949 he married Jihan Raouf, the beautiful, 15-year-old daughter of middle-class Anglo-Egyptian parents...
...Jihan Sadat, 43, is Westernized in her dress and in her outlook on social problems. The presidential consort, however, stays out of politics completely and was kept in the dark by her husband during the four major crises of his career: the 1952 revolution that overthrew King Farouk, an attempted coup by ambitious leftists in 1971, the October War of 1973, and his journey to Jerusalem in November. Last month, in an interview with TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, she recalled in revealing fashion these pivotal moments...
Then he surprised us all with the announcement of his trip to Jerusalem. The night he mentioned it in his speech to the Egyptian parliament, I was out to dinner. When I came home, my daughter Jihan said 'Daddy is going to Jerusalem!' When he came home I asked him if he really had said it. He said yes. I asked him if he meant it, and he answered 'Yes, I meant it.' I told him 'It's the best way to peace.' I asked him 'Do you think the Israelis will...