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...While Sadat remained outwardly confident, privately he must have realized that the Reagan Administration lacked not only a clear Middle East policy but a sense of urgency about the region and, worse, was giving the Israelis reason to think that Washington would apply less pressure toward a settlement than the Carter Administration had done. Sadat was discouraged about the autonomy talks, having made clear that he could not accept the very limited form of Palestinian self-government envisaged by Israel. But he readily agreed to the resumption of negotiations. He urged the U.S. to try to include the P.L.O...
Washington realizes that it will not see Sadat's like again, but it is encouraged by the way Mubarak has taken charge. Said Secretary of State Alexander Haig: "We are greatly assured that the policy will be one of continuation of the Sadat legacy." Assuming that all goes well domestically, U.S. officials agree that, in time, Mubarak will seek ways to renew ties with his Arab neighbors and look for alternative approaches to peace. Many Western diplomats believe that Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Fahd's plan, announced two months ago, which offered peace to Israel in exchange for Israeli withdrawal...
...week ended, leaders from all over the world gathered in Cairo to pay final tribute to Anwar Sadat. Francois Mitterrand and Helmut Schmidt were there, as were Prince Charles, Begin and Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri...
Among the members of the American delegation, in addition to the three former Presidents and Rosalynn Carter, were Haig, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and Henry Kissinger. They paid courtesy calls on Mubarak and on the widowed Jehan Sadat. She also, of course, met with Begin, to whom she said: "It is very sad, but I am glad my husband died on his feet and not on his knees...
...perhaps unprecedented moment in modern history: four U.S. Presidents standing side by side. As he bade farewell to Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon on the South Lawn of the White House before they departed for Sadat's funeral, Ronald Reagan paid tribute to the fallen Egyptian. Excerpts...