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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...
...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...
...frightened, he said in a speech, "even if the U.S. gives every Israeli a tank." Interior Minister Shaarawi Gomaa scheduled air-raid drills for Cairo and Alexandria, but more moderate elements in Sadat's government prevailed on the President to cancel them. In addition, night lights on the Nile River bridges were turned on for the first time since January, when Israel launched the first of its deep-penetration air-raids in response to Nasser's "war of attrition...
...Russians, the Israelis estimate that as many as 3,000 to 4,000 Soviet technicians are stationed within the standstill zone. The SAMs, which constitute one of the greatest antiaircraft shields in history, form a rough triangle along the Suez Canal, guarding the routes to Cairo and the Nile Delta (see maps...
...then that I found the subtitle of my book. Nasser symbolized a "search for dignity" throughout the Asian-African world. He emerged from the grass roots, from the silt of the Nile Valley. He was determined to make his people feel proud to be Egyptians instead of posing as carbon copies of Frenchmen or anyone else...