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...Carter, concluding the accords between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was the high point of a frustrating four years in the White House. For our first fundamentalist President, bringing the leaders of two holy land nations together for un-precedented face-to-face negotiation was more than just a political maneuver. The quest for peace in the land of the Bible has been a special concern of Carter's, a concern that outlasted his pay in the oval office...
Although the former President praises many of the Middle East leaders he has known, it is obvious that his hero is the late Anwar Sadat, whose home village Carter visited in 1983, some 17 months after Sadat's death. In his lifetime Sadat was condemned by many fellow Arabs for making peace with Israel. In Carter's view Sadat remained true to his Arab heritage even as he moved "toward peace for his people and justice for the Palestinians by acknowledging the need for incremental progress through negotiation...
...first time the U.S. had scheduled a meeting with the Soviets to formally take note of their views on the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1977, when the two sides jointly called for an international conference in Geneva under United Nations auspices. That initiative was superseded by Anwar Sadat's historic trip to Jerusalem...
...addition to covering and analyzing the week's news, TIME occasionally offers its readers a bonus: an advance look at the memoirs of historic figures. Nikita Khrushchev, Anwar Sadat, Henry Kissinger and Jimmy Carter are among the world leaders whose books have been excerpted in the magazine. The current selection is something of a break with tradition: the author, Soviet Defector Arkady Shevchenko, was virtually unknown outside diplomatic and political circles. Only with the sensational revelations in his new book, Breaking with Moscow, does he emerge from the shadowy world of superpower espionage. Last week's eleven-page excerpt carried...
...policy of violence, intimidation and death has been a historic Kremlin method of quieting opposition, from the assassination of Leon Trotsky to attempts on the lives of foreign figures like Dag Hammarskjold and Anwar Sadat. Soviet ties to guerrilla groups are so well known that the Kalashnikov submachine gun has become the symbol for international terrorism. The U.S.S.R. continues training terrorists within and beyond its borders to subvert stable nations and particularly to feed upon unrest in the Third World...