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...what some might call a lazy man's schedule gave Sadat a chance to think, and that made an enormous difference to the world. It took a lot of patient walking and pipe chewing to reach his crucial decisions. His longtime counselor Sayed Marei, who was wounded in last week's shooting, once observed that, "he takes a long time to make up his mind, but once he makes it up, it never changes...
That quality of decisiveness, followed up by action, is what distinguished Sadat from his peers. "A leader of the Arab world usually waits for something to happen, then he counterpunches," says L. Carl Brown, director of Near East studies at Princeton University. "What was fascinating about Sadat was that he took initiatives. That's not the usual Arab style. Sadat was in a class by himself." Says Harvard University Professor Nadav Safran, a Cairo-born Jew: "Sadat broke away in order to lead. He broke away in order to explore the road ahead, at great risk to himself. He proved...
...Anwar Sadat believed so completely in his mission that he was prepared to perish rather than change direction. And from that faith came the courage to face the dangers before him with his oft-repeated dictum: "This is my fate. I have accepted my fate." ?By Thomas A. Sancton. Reported by Dean Brelis/New York and Wilton Wynn/Cairo
...world figures were as close to Anwar Sadat as former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. During 21 months of shuttling between Egypt and Israel in 1974 and 1975 in his effort to bring peace to the Middle East, Kissinger met Sadat literally dozens of times, and the two men achieved a rapport that went far beyond the often forced friendliness of most diplomatic relationships. In the following piece, Kissinger movingly describes the characteristics that propelled Sadat to the center of the world's stage, and kept him there. Kissinger is currently working on the second volume of his memoirs...
When Anwar Sadat appeared on the scene, the Arab countries had too little confidence in their arms and too much faith in their rhetoric. The majority of them relied on the Soviet Union, which could supply them with weapons for futile wars but no programs for progress in diplomacy. Negotiations consisted of exalted slogans incapable of achievement; the Arab countries wanted the fruits of peace without daring to pronounce the word. The nations of the West stood on the sidelines, observers at a drama that affected their destiny but seemingly without the capacity to influence...