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...completion of the autonomy talks, which are to resume later this month in Cairo. By April, if all goes well, Egypt will have got back all of the Sinai Peninsula, seized by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. Some U.S. officials fear that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat may lose interest in further talks with Israel once he has achieved that goal...
...Sadat cracks down hard on an unfocused but growing opposition...
...massive wave of arrests was prompted, Egyptian officials explained, by Muslims and Christians who indulged in "irresponsible and suspicious acts." But political opponents of Sadat's regime charged that the President was exploiting the issue of religious strife to silence critics of Egypt's peace treaty with Israel and of endemic problems such as inflation, corruption and housing shortages. Said Khaled Mohieddin, leader of the leftist National Progressive Unionist Party: "Everyone who reads the names of the detainees will understand the aim of the campaign...
...Sadat's government has kept a watchful eye on a nascent coalition of opposition groups. Following Israel's bombing of the Baghdad nuclear reactor and Beirut, leftist and religious critics began sharing the same platform to denounce Sadat's wholehearted embrace of the U.S.-sponsored Camp David peace process. The broad purge seemed to reflect an uneasy concern that the regime's detractors were displaying new signs of unity...
...response to the arrests, several hundred Muslim zealots marched on a Coptic cathedral in Cairo, but were repulsed by riot police firing volleys of tear gas. Sadat's political response was equally firm. Late last week, he announced that he would show "no mercy" to Muslim groups involved in the strife and vowed to strip all powers from Pope Shenouda III, 117th Patriarch of the Coptic Church of Egypt...