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...this time Reagan had got the political bug, and he watched Nixon and listened to him. After Nixon's Watergate humiliation, it was Reagan who made certain Nixon was on the delegation, which also included Ford and Carter, sent to the funeral of Egypt's Anwar Sadat...
...without the Nixon apocalypse and pardon by Ford probably never would have been President, came quietly to the rain-soaked green below Nixon's coffin. His presence was his testimony, going beyond old denunciations and bitter assessments. Carter carries the memory of going on that presidential mission to Sadat's funeral and at first feeling uncomfortable about being on the same plane as Nixon. But they surveyed each other warily in the confines of the fuselage, then self-consciously greeted and sat down and talked genially about foreign policy. In a moment they had become sort-of friends, mellowing members...
...reassuring to hear Rabin give expression to the intense, yet mixed feelings present in the pro-Israel community. We wished the Palestinian leader who shook Rabin's hand would be a courageous leader, like Sadat, who flouted Arab rejectionism and flew to Jerusalem in pursuit of peace. Instead, we were greeted by Arafat's grinning visage on the cover of Time magazine...
...September 1981, Abouhalima was granted a visa to visit Germany as a tourist. It was a good time to leave Egypt. Earlier that month Anwar Sadat had arrested some 2,000 Islamic intellectuals, clerics and fundamentalists who opposed him. One week after Abouhalima departed, militants killed the Egyptian President. Meanwhile, in Munich, Abouhalima sought political asylum, claiming that he faced persecution in Egypt because of his membership in the Muslim Brotherhood, a fundamentalist party that was then facing a harsh crackdown...
Abouhalima never hid his opinions. He condemned the governments of Sadat and later Mubarak, along with their supporters like the U.S. Abouhalima had little regard for Germans, complaining that they drank too much, had cold personalities and spent money too lavishly. Despite his bitterness toward Egypt, he longed for his homeland and spoke about it often. He read Arabic newspapers, and since his parents did not own a telephone, he made it a point to call one of his uncles in Egypt every Sunday...