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...chaotic regime now had a Soviet threat on its eastern border as it struggled to cope with rebel autonomists and internal squabbles over what to do with the American hostages. In Egypt, Moscow's audacious conquest of Afghanistan cast a darkening shadow over a summit between President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin. In New York City, one Third World country after another rose in the United Nations General Assembly to excoriate the Soviet Union (see following stones...
...weather: the two men chatting together by the sun-drenched pool of Aswan's Oberoi Hotel on the Nile might have been old friends planning their next family vacation together. But the impression was deceptive. For Israel's Premier Menachem Begin and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, the relaxed atmosphere at last week's summit could not conceal troublesome problems ahead in giving "momentum to the peace process," as Sadat put it. The two leaders agreed to establish formal relations between Egypt and Israel on Jan. 26, in accordance with the timetable laid down at Camp...
...summit was the fifth that the two have held since the signing of the peace treaty last March. Sadat and Begin, who were accompanied to Egypt's best-known winter resort by their wives, resumed the warm, almost joshing relationship of previous meetings. When Begin gallantly made a dinner toast to Sadat's wife Jehan ("To our dear lady, or perhaps I should say our beautiful lady") his Egyptian host, amid roars of laughter, responded with mock jealousy: "Begin, be careful...
...Afghanistan had transformed the summit, said a Begin aide, "from just a discussion on Palestinian autonomy to a broad consideration of regional matters." At their second session, beside the hotel swimming pool, the two men pored intently over a large map of the Middle East and Southwest Asia, with Sadat using his pipestem as a pointer. The leaders found that their views of the Iranian and Afghan crises coincided. Responding to a dinner toast, with Sadat nodding his approval, Begin denounced Khomeini's rule as "an outburst of dark fanaticism, of black hatred." Later he termed the Soviet intervention...
...vivid denunciations of assorted opponents as "devils" and "agents of Satan" have persuaded some American politicians that Khomeini is?in the words of Egypt's Anwar Sadat ?"a lunatic." Not so, conclude most Iranian scholars. "I don't think he's crazy," says Columbia University Historian Richard Bulliet. "Most of his decisions have been taken quite logically as a consequence of his perception of the popular will." Richard Falk, professor of international relations and foreign policy at Princeton, concurs: "When he seems the most crazy to us, he appears most exemplary to the Iranian people. That suggests you would...