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Vance's first stop was Alexandria, the 2,300-year-old metropolis of the Nile Delta, to which nearly 2 million Cairenes-among them Egyptian President Anwar badat-flee each summer to escape the capital's stifling heat. The Secretary, who suffers from a chronically bad back arrived fatigued from his 13-hour flight. Although he was limping slightly because of a calf muscle he had pulled the previous day in a tennis game with World Bank President Robert McNamara, he headed directly for Sadat's lavish four-story seaside villa. As Vance approached, Sadat began opening...
...less precise about what the boundaries of that homeland ought to be. One of the earliest references is Genesis 15: 18: "In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt [probably not the Nile, but the Wadi el Arish in the Sinai] unto the great river, the great river Euphrates." If modern Israel claimed this vast expanse, it would include not only Damascus and much of modern Syria but parts of Turkey...
...youths. Three years ago, in a clumsy attempt to overthrow Sadat's "atheistic" regime, Moustafa's followers attacked the Egyptian Technical Military Academy at Heliopolis and provoked a battle with guards in which eleven people died and 27 were wounded. A year later townsmen of the Nile Valley village of Minya complained that the group was brainwashing their daughters and carrying them off as concubines. One young girl was even persuaded by the group to commit suicide as an atonement for her alleged sins...
Chances are the two men should get along well. Among other things, Sadat is as devout a Moslem as Carter is a Baptist. Moreover, both are small-town boys who talk about the inspiration they still gain from their home towns. Sadat's Plains is a Nile Delta village named Mit Abou Alkoum (the Place of the Heap), which Sadat has called "an unfailing source of morality, common sense and perspective...
...Last week's summit, however, took place without a hitch in security. The Kings, Sheiks, Emirs, Presidents and other chieftains (or their stand-ins) from 59 nations, plus leaders of the P.L.O. and several African liberation groups, were quartered in the city's main hotels. From the Nile Hilton, they could walk across a huge red carpet to the Arab Socialist Union auditorium next door. Battalions of black-bereted Egyptian police lined the roads, ringed the official buildings, and even guarded the Hilton's roof and stairways. In short, the delegates were protected from everything, suggested...