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...controversial as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was alive, he has become no less so a year and a half after his assassination. In a new memoir, his disillusioned onetime adviser Muhammed Hassanein Heikal contends that Sadat had a humble-beginnings complex that caused him to live inordinately lavishly. The author says that Sadat popped a couple of vodkas daily despite his Islamic faith's liquor prohibition. The Egyptian government last month banned import of the book. Anwar's widow Jehan Sadat, 49, has not commented publicly on Heikal's charges, but she will provide a portrait...
...chance of progress last week by refusing to approve official Jordanian participation in the talks. And Jordan's King Hussein, virtually held hostage in his own land by the intimidating presence of Palestinian guerrillas, would rather not join the ranks of the martyrs--men like Sartawi and Anwar Sadat, for example, who dared to break with the PLO leadership and pain dearly for their apostasy...
...negotiating principles, which would then be presented to an Arab summit meeting for ratification. Explained an aide: "Arafat does not want to make a move without a lot of people moving with him." Referring to Egypt's isolation from the rest of the Arab world after Anwar Sadat signed the peace treaty with Israel, he added: "The lesson of Sadat is that there is safety in numbers." That was fine with Hussein, but first he wanted to work out the details of the agreement with Arafat. One of the P.L.O. leader's colleagues remarked that, as always, "Hussein...
...Kennedy School of Government will help run an electoral reform conference next fall which may draw together all three living former presidents of the United States. It would apparently be the second such gathering ever, the first taking place in 1981 at former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat's funeral...
...both Arafat and Jordan's Arab allies, notably Saudi Arabia's King Fahd. Jordan is dependent on Saudi Arabia and the gulf states for more than $1 billion a year in economic assistance. Hussein, moreover, would be personally even more vulnerable than assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was after he signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. Says a European diplomat in Amman: "Jordan is not Egypt. It could not sustain the burdens of isolation...