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...latest round of Middle East peace talks got under way. Egypt's Anwar Sadat journeyed to the dusty Nile delta town of Tanta to address his first mass rally since becoming President three months ago. The 12,000 Tantans responded as if the late Gamal Abdel Nasser himself were speaking. "There will be no compromise," said Sadat, "and we will not give up one inch of our land. The battle will extend to our farms, our factories, in the towns, cities and on the streets." Then he demanded: "Are you really fed up? Are you really tired of fighting...
Available and Harmless. Critics could scarcely be blamed for underestimating Nasser's successor. Until Sadat became President, his chief accomplishment, other than his role in the 1952 officers' revolt that brought Nasser to power, was his survival. A former colonel, he edited the official newspaper Al Gumliouriya for a time and served as speaker of Nasser's rubber-stamp National Assembly. He lived quietly with his second wife Gehan, their three daughters and a son inevitably named Gamal (there are three older daughters, all married to army officers, by a first marriage that ended in divorce...
...After Nasser's death, Sadat formed a workable consensus government. He persuaded veteran Diplomat Mahmoud Fawzi, 72, a widely respected moderate, to become Premier. Ali Sabry, Moscow's chief protege, was named a Vice President, but not First Vice President; that job went to Hussein Shafei, another participant in the 1952 revolt. Such important departments as Health, Education, Social Services and Police were placed under Interior Minister Shaarawi Gomaa, who is known mainly as a tough, hard-working administrator. Lieut. General Mohammed Fawzi, no kin to the Premier, assured Sadat of the army's support...
Egypt First. Nasser's picture continues to hang in government offices instead of Sadat's, but Sadat has quickly developed a style and emphasis of his own. He has begun to mute Nasser's stress on Pan-Arabism and concentrate on Egypt's internal problems. When one of United Arab Airlines' aging Comets crashed two weeks ago in Tripoli, killing 16, Sadat grounded the other four and UAA Chairman Ahmed Tewfik Bakry as well; Egypt then leased six Ilyushin 18s from Eastern European airlines. To revamp Cairo's creaking transit system, Sadat...
...most memorable performance occurred during the tumultuous Arab summit held in Cairo last September, just before Nasser's death, to end the fighting between the Palestinian commandos and King Hussein's army in Jordan. Gaddafi strode into the conference room at the Nile Hilton and placed his pistol on the table in front of him. Then, glaring at Hussein, he declared: "The best thing you can do is abdicate." The argument grew so heated that Nasser finally growled: "I think you are all sick. Maybe we ought to call in some doctors for a consultation." Turning to Gaddafi...