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Egypt's constitution allowed up to 60 days for the country to select a successor to President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Only nine days were needed. Last week, in Cairo's Victorian National Assembly building, 353 members of the Assembly formally selected Vice President Anwar Sadat as the new leader of the country. This week the populace will vote in a yes-or-no national referendum. The outcome is so certain that preparations are already under way for Sadat's inauguration two days later...
...country's history, no one in the government wants to present a picture of indecision. Moreover, Sadat and other leaders were under considerable pressure from the Soviet Union to present an appearance of peaceful succession. Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, who rushed to Cairo within a day after Nasser's death, held three lengthy meetings with Sadat, former Prime Minister Ali Sabry and War Minister Mohammed Fawzi. Repeatedly, Kosygin stressed the need for "unity and continuity," and suggested that a collective leadership might be the answer, as it was for Russia after Stalin's death and after Khrushchev...
...must say unabashedly that I liked Nasser far more than any other public figure I have known as a newsman. As demagogic as he may have sounded in his speeches, he was always the essence of sincerity and common sense in private talk. He could never understand that friends in the foreign press might sometimes criticize him. Often, after an address, he would call his press officer and ask, "What did Wynn think of the speech?" And sometimes he had to be told that I didn't like it. Yet these reports did not destroy our friendship...
...black dock porter reciting an epic poem to a group who lounged in the cafe smoking the hubble-bubble pipe and chewing qat (a mildly narcotic green leaf). Normally, he would have chanted verses about heroes of the past. On this occasion his epic hero was a man named Nasser, who stood on the beaches of Port Said and picked up the British tanks and the French planes and hurled them back into the sea. For him, for other black and brown and yellow men, and wherever the cry "Allahu akbar" (God is great) is heard from the minarets...
...city had suffered massive destruction as the army routed the guerrillas. Burned-out automobiles and tanks were dragged from the streets. With electricity still out in many areas, street-corner hawkers selling kerosene lanterns did a brisker business than did peddlers offering pictures of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Shattered water mains were mended, but there were no pumps working to carry water to the top of Amman's hills. Over whole sections of the city hung the suffocating stench of death. A mass grave dug in the Ashrafiryeh section by the Jordanian army was discovered; it contained...