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Each side claimed that the tragic events in Egypt last week made its case more compelling. Opponents of the Reagan Administration's plan to sell five AWACS surveillance planes to Saudi Arabia argued that the murder of President Sadat illustrated the folly of selling some of America's most advanced weapons technology to potentially unstable Middle Eastern regimes. Proponents answered just as vigorously that Sadat's death underscored America's need to support its few remaining allies in the area. Both arguments swirled in and around the Senate, where the Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled...
President Reagan strongly stressed the connection between Sadat's death and congressional approval of the AWACS deal when he met with 43 Republican Senators in the East Room of the White House. "The sale is particularly important in light of the tragedy of yesterday," he said. Indeed a defeat, which would mark the first time that the Hill had blocked an arms deal, would tarnish Reagan's projection of authority abroad and represent a slap at the Saudis...
...Brzezinski, Robert McNamara and Melvin Laird- who gathered at the White House to proclaim their support. Said Kissinger: "I believe the sale is essential for the peace process in the Middle East." The Administration hopes to pick up Jimmy Carter's public support after he returns from the Sadat funeral...
...just past noon in Paris. A reporter for Agence France-Presse, the French news agency, was monitoring a routine radio broadcast from Cairo describing a military parade attended by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and other dignitaries...
Within moments, at around 7:10 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, news services around the world were carrying the first bulletins: someone had shot at President Sadat. Little else was known...