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...fight for the Saudi deal on Capitol Hill, the Administration also moved rapidly to send a strong signal of support to both Egypt and its beleaguered neighbor, the Sudan, which is threatened by the presence of 7,000 Libyan troops in nearby Chad. After conferring in Cairo with Mubarak and Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri following Sadat's funeral, Secretary of State Alexander Haig announced that the U.S. would speed up the delivery of arms already promised to Egypt and the Sudan. In addition, Washington last week dispatched two AW ACS planes from the U.S. to Egypt both to symbolize...
...consequences of the assassination of Anwar Sadat began to permeate Washington last week, the Reagan Administration found itself scrambling to patch together answers, however temporary, to a host of delicate questions raised by the death of the Egyptian leader. How best to beef up the regime of Hosni Mubarak, Sadat's successor? How to keep the Libyans at bay in the Sudan? Perhaps most important, how to speed up the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy? At stake is not only the influence of the United States in a crucial part of the globe, but, ultimately, issues of peace...
There are hazards and limitations to all the new U.S. initiatives. Next month's display of military muscle may have scant effect on Libyan attempts to cause trouble in Egypt and the Sudan. U.S. support for Mubarak must strike a careful balance so as not to cast him as little more than a U.S. puppet, imperiling his fledgling hold on his country. The U.S. may also have difficulty delivering on its weapons promises, for the Pentagon has few arms to spare. Both M60 tanks and air defense missiles, for example, are in short supply...
...ready to put more military muscle in the region, it has been decidedly less willing, so far at least, to exercise its influence in a matter of equal importance: persuading Israel to work out an accord on Palestinian autonomy with Egypt. Enough progress on this issue might allow Mubarak to mend his ties with other moderate Arabs, especially the Saudis. If little or no progress is made, however, Mubarak will be under increasing pressure from his Arab neighbors to break Egypt's commitment to the Camp David accords, and to Israel and the U.S. as well...
...Mubarak may not be able to continue the peace process, the journalist said. "Because the assassination was not a coup formal structure remains. But is formal structure enough?" Sid Ahmad asked, adding that Mubarak has "no political background...