Word: mubarak
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...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...
...reaction, from both Egyptians and foreigners, was generally favorable. On Tuesday, Mubarak had won 98.46% of the vote in the national referendum that elected him President. In his address to parliament the following day, he spoke with authority and emotion, seemingly making a conscious effort to transform himself from an understudy into a national leader. "He has an important trait," said one former parliamentarian. "He listens, and in this part of the world we need a leader who listens...
...atmosphere of deliberate calm, Mubarak launched a purge, including the transfer of hundreds of army officers and civil servants of "fanatical religious tendencies" to less sensitive posts, and an investigation of the failure of military intelligence to detect the presence of the armed assassins who gunned down Sadat. He also authorized the "preventive" arrests of several hundred known civilian extremists of both the left and right and asked the People's Assembly for legislation imposing the death penalty on anyone found guilty of unlawful use of firearms...
Even some Israelis felt that the Administration's response was out of step with reality. Asked a high-ranking Israeli intelligence official: "What are Mubarak's main problems? A pre-emptive strike by the Libyan army? Nonsense. The main danger for the Egyptian regime is within Egypt; the real challenges are poverty, hunger, the opposition groups, and the imams preaching at the mosques...
Thus one of the most pressing matters for Mubarak's government is to determine to what extent militant Muslims have penetrated the army. The government has not revealed whether the assassination plot extended to the level of colonels or higher, as many believe; whether the Libyans or the Soviets provided assistance; or whether any of Egypt's exiled nationalists were involved...