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...First Lady's liberation views developed in Talla, Sadat's home town in the Nile delta. "A woman complained to me of the way her husband was treating her," Mrs. Sadat explained last week to TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn. "She told me he had sold her sewing machine for the money. I decided I must do something to help such women win respect and security, so they wouldn't be tyrannized by their husbands. I started a center for social development and helped the women to sew aprons for schools and for sale in shops. Now that...
...Friday evening, after a normal day's schedule including publication of a column attacking the U.S. for its pro-Israel stance and an afternoon meeting with President Anwar Sadat, Heykal returned to his apartment overlooking the Nile and heard on a radio news broadcast that Sadat had removed him from office...
Aches and Pains. Kissinger's principal advantage in last week's negotiations was his dizzying, diplomatic milk run aboard Air Force Two, his blue and white 707 jet, between Jerusalem and the village of Aswan on the upper Nile, where Sadat was recovering from a bad case of bronchitis. Kissinger made three trips between Sadat and Meir in Jerusalem- who was also ailing, with a painful case of shingles-before he was able to reach an agreement. But by week's end, in a dramatic demonstration of his achievement, he had only to make one final flight...
...Much has changed in Cairo in 29 years," notes Wynn, "but there is still a sense of permanence about the Egypt of awe-inspiring antiquities, of graceful feluccas with their arched sails on the Nile, and the finest kabob and sharpest sense of humor in the world...
...airport serving the Egyptian capital was near the combat zone. But the midnight landing came off without a hitch, and Kissinger was engulfed in an excited crush of photographers. Security officers finally jammed him into a waiting limousine and whisked him to the palatial presidential suite at the Nile Hilton...