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...been hop-scotching around the country, telling crowds, "I stand before you asking for your endorsement." Close on his heels, nine challengers have been giving raucous speeches, sometimes accusing him of tyranny and corruption, strictly taboo accusations less than a year ago. "The genie is out of the bottle," Saadeddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian sociologist once imprisoned for his pro-democracy activities, said in a TIME interview. "There is no way this regime can maintain one-man rule...
...interest of restoring Arab unity. Among the friends who are pressing him to change course is Jordan's King Hussein, who has urged him to acknowledge publicly that his peace effort has failed. Sadat has refused. Among his foes is his own ambassador to Lisbon, former General Saadeddin Shazli, who was fired from his post last week after savagely denouncing Sadat. Shazli has disliked Sadat ever since Sadat removed him as Chief of Staff shortly after the 1973 October War, and he appears to see himself as available to charge home from exile if asked to replace a faltering...
Firmly Opposed. Sadat reshuffled his army's command. He replaced his Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Saadeddin Shazli, who had been praised only two months ago for his troops' daring canal crossing. The new Chief of Staff is Major General Mohamed Abdel Ghani el Gamasi, the soft-spoken officer-diplomat who represented the Egyptians at the Kilometer 101 negotiations. This change, as well as the appointment of new commanders for the Second and Third Armies, was interpreted in Cairo as a strong indication of Egypt's desire for a peaceful settlement...
EGYPT, LIEUT. GENERAL SAADEDDIN SHAZLI...
...They were led by Egypt's War Minister, Lieut. General Mohammed Ahmed Sadek, a "political" general who has openly quarreled with his Soviet counterparts because they hindered his officers from entering Soviet-controlled bases and spoke of Egyptian soldiers in what Sadek considered a derogatory manner. Lieut. General Saadeddin Shazli, the chief of staff, was also there, and so, reportedly, were divisional commanders and the commander of Egypt's special-force commandos and paratroops. They demanded more freedom from overbearing Russian advisers; the implication was that they would not guarantee Sadat's continued presidency unless they received...
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