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...ANWAR EL-SADAT died surrounded by the weapons that made his country the most powerful of Arab nations. Yet his assassins were attacking Sadat the peace-maker, not Sadat the war-monger. In this and many other ironies of his life, Sadat was a paradox, a man to befriend you one day only to abandon you the next. Indeed, the late Egyptian ruler once flirted with Hitler's Germany, then denounced it; supported Nasser, then disowned him; courted the Soviet Union, then rejected it; and waged war on Israel only to then embrace it in conciliation. Unstable as this course...
...assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat sent shock-waves around the world. In Israel, Prime Minister Menachem Begin mourned Sadat's death, saying, "I have lost not only a partner in the peace process but also a friend...
...Washington, President Reagan said, "Today, the people of the United States join the people of Egypt and all those who long for a better world in mourning the death of Anwar Sadat...
...week's end, though, worries about Egypt's stability had been somewhat allayed, as the government in Cairo moved to fill the void. Egypt's parliament endorsed Vice President Hosni Mubarak to succeed Sadat, and the nation will probably affirm that choice in a referendum next week...
...senior State Department official cancelled an appearance at Harvard this week after news of Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat's assassination...