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...power game but will never be in the top clique. Even as the big ones elbow each other, even as they arm as adversaries, there is a feeling that these leaders want to serve their people, not themselves. That is a thin hope for civilization, and one message of Sadat's death...
They learn from each other. Carter was startled at Camp David by Sadat's open contempt for some of his fellow Arabs. He saw Sadat rise above the details of government, emerge from silence and isolation with a sweeping vision of peace. John Kennedy sensed De Gaulle's advantage over him because De Gaulle could understand English and Kennedy could not understand French. J.F.K. began secretly to study French...
Whether chosen by his people or by a political elite, each member of the club is remarkable in some way. Each is monomaniac to a point. But each knows his fragility, even as Sadat knew. As Harry Truman put it, "Many people are indispensable. No one is irreplaceable." So it will be this time as the grand lodge of the power wielders mourns, and then moves...
...Portico, there to issue a brief statement on the death of a "close and dear friend," whom they had welcomed to the White House just two months before. There was grief and anger in Reagan's voice as he denounced the assassination of Egypt's President Anwar Sadat as "an act of infamy, cowardly infamy." The shock and concern of official Washington were also written large on the faces of scores of dignitaries at a memorial service held in the stately National Cathedral...
...reacted to events as they occurred. The absence of a real strategic design has been notably true in the Middle East, where Reagan's policy, at least until recently, consisted of little more than an obsession with Soviet expansionism, uncritical support for Israel and ever deepening reliance on Sadat. His assassination now presents U.S. diplomacy with new dangers and opportunities. It has yet to prove that it can handle them successfully...