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...much of the world's leadership (fetching back three Administrations in the U.S. case). The procession of power on display was pharaonic. It was a complicated homage: there was Prince Charles, to represent the British, whom Sadat once plotted violently to evict. And there, of course, was Menachem Begin, something of an ex-terrorist himself, who enjoyed an immeasurably complex relationship and history with the deceased...
...Jerusalem, Prime Minister Menachem Begin was taking the eight-minute ride in his official car from his office to his home in the city's Rehavia section to have lunch. It was the day before the eve of Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day, and Begin was planning to take the afternoon off to prepare for the holiday. As he heard the news over the car's communications radio, Begin was "absolutely stunned," in the words of a senior aide...
Expressions of shock and tribute arrived in Cairo from Israel, where Prime Minister Menachem Begin said he had lost "not only a partner in the peace process but also a friend"; from Bonn, where Chancellor Helmut Schmidt spoke of his "bewilderment and horror"; from Tokyo, where the government called Sadat "a great gladiator for peace"?and from two men who had been more fortunate than Anwar Sadat. In St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, Pope John Paul II, who was struck by a bullet just five months ago, spoke of his "emotion and pain." And in Washington, Ronald...
Until Sadat's pilgrimage, no leader on either side of the Arab-Israeli blood feud had shown the courage, vision and flexibility to seek a radical solution to the festering problem. His hosts were at first surprised, then exalted, by his unexpected overture. As Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin then put it: "We, the Jews, know how to appreciate such courage...
...AVIV, Israel--Moshe Dayan, Israel's former defense and foreign minister, died yesterday at a Tel Aviv hospital of a heart attack. The statesman, famous for his work in framing the Camp David peace accords with Egypt, was 66-years-old. Prime Minister Menachem Begin has ordered a state funeral for Dayan, an Israeli government an- nouncement said...