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...Sadat was a visionary with a talent for astonishing; he had a Clausewitzian instinct ("For great aims, we must dare great things"). He was also a profound, serene fatalist-which may have been the secret of his equilibrium. Such fatalism might serve others well now. Since 1970, 22 heads of state or government have been assassinated. As Theologian Paul Tillich remarked: "Death has become powerful in our time." -By Lance Morrow
...fatal chaos produced, four days later, a nervous, solemn pageant of much of the world's leadership (fetching back three Administrations in the U.S. case). The procession of power on display was pharaonic. It was a complicated homage: there was Prince Charles, to represent the British, whom Sadat once plotted violently to evict. And there, of course, was Menachem Begin, something of an ex-terrorist himself, who enjoyed an immeasurably complex relationship and history with the deceased...
...around the assassination of Anwar Sadat was dense with fatal ironies. In martial finery, the Nobel Peace prizewinner sat admiring his nation's annual celebration of force; it was the anniversary of the 1973 day when Egypt plunged across the Suez Canal to break Israel's Bar Lev Line. Now death jumped out of his beloved army's line of march...
...Sadat's assassination was not a lovelorn nut-case fluke like the attack on Ronald Reagan in March, nor was it the almost metaphysically surprising outrage committed six weeks later in St. Peter's Square...
...Sadat knew as well as anyone the furies he had stirred in the Arab world when he went to Jerusalem on his "sacred mission" in 1977, when he signed the Camp David agreements and embraced the Prime Minister of Israel. At the news of his death, while others recoiled and wept, great throngs in many Arab countries turned out rejoicing; they waved flags and fired rifles in the air. They hated Sadat. They wanted him dead; they had their reasons. But they were dancing upon the assassinated corpse of one of the world's last great...