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Montana's Melcher was won over partly because of another letter, from Ambassador to Japan Mike Mansfield, an old mentor who had preceded Melcher in his Senate seat. The day before the vote, Administration lobbyists called Melcher off the Senate floor to read him Mansfield's statement. Melcher cited it when he announced his decision that evening...
...defend against the UMass mobilization, Scalise hopes to follow the old adage, "the best defense is offense." "We're not looking to contain their attackers," added the Harvard mentor. "We're looking to pressure them, so they're worried about...
...more than six years he had been Anwar Sadat's closest aide and heir apparent; last week he succeeded his slain mentor as President of Egypt. As the People's Assembly chanted, "Long live the Arab Republic of Egypt," Hosni Mubarak, 53, took the oath of office and pledged, as he had done immediately after Sadat's death, to follow his predecessor's policies. "This is my fate," he said, "to stand before you in his absence. Egypt is stable. The greatest tribute we can pay him is to follow his course." Mubarak affirmed Egypt...
...solving: a pragmatist is taking the place of a prophet. Says a Western diplomat who knows both men well: "Sadat was the pioneer and innovator. Mubarak will be the con-solidator." The President-designate has had 6½ years to study his new role, with Sadat as his intimate mentor. Sadat's visitors became accustomed to seeing the stocky, taciturn Mubarak sitting near the President, quietly taking notes. Whenever Sadat had one-on-one meetings, as at Camp David, he later briefed Mubarak minutely. "There was nothing he did or said that I did not know," says Mubarak...
...about documenting the still touchy aftermath of the assassination. But Cronkite and CBS held the edge a bit longer, delivering the first film interview with Sadat's successor, Mubarak. It was a masterly portrait of a strong adjutant struggling to fill the shoes of a giant, a mentor Mubarak admitted he is still unable to believe has left him. Many viewers felt the same way. -By Janice Castro. Reported by Janice C Simpson/New York