Word: sadat
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Muhammad Sid Ahmad, addressing a Middle East forum, said that because Egypt's new president, Hosni Mubarak, is not Sadat, Israel will "need more guarantees" before it pulls out of the Sinai under terms of the Camp David accords...
...Mubarak] will be put to test," Sid Ahmad said, adding, "Sadat's test killed...
...knew with any certainty for more than three hours just what President Sadat's condition was or who had attacked him. White House sources at first characterized Sadat's injuries as "not life threatening." As late as 9:57 a.m. E.D.T., former U.S. President Jimmy Carter assured CBS's Rather over a telephone hookup from Plains, Ga., that his diplomatic sources in Cairo had just told him "President Sadat will be all right...
Sticking to her story, Williston was well ahead of everyone else with the report that Sadat had died. About ten minutes later, as an increasing number of sources around the world began to relay the same word, it was Tom Brokaw's turn to press Correspondent Art Kent on whether he had heard the news "from an official spokesman, or are we all beginning to repeat each other?" Over at ABC, Frank Reynolds explained: "We are obliged to give you information that may turn out to be inaccurate." At moments, the frustration and uncertainty swamped their syntax. Pointing...
...leaders converged on Cairo for the Egyptian President's funeral in the following days, they were joined by some 800 journalists, who set about documenting the still touchy aftermath of the assassination. But Cronkite and CBS held the edge a bit longer, delivering the first film interview with Sadat's successor, Mubarak. It was a masterly portrait of a strong adjutant struggling to fill the shoes of a giant, a mentor Mubarak admitted he is still unable to believe has left him. Many viewers felt the same way. -By Janice Castro. Reported by Janice C Simpson/New York