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Moscow's influence in the Middle East has been on the ebb ever since Egyptian President Anwar Sadat expelled an estimated 17,000 Soviet technical advisers and military personnel in 1972. After the 1973 war, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger effectively shut the Soviets out of all Middle East negotiations. By supplying weapons to the P.L.O., Syria, Iraq, Libya and Algeria, Moscow tried to regain a voice in the region's affairs, but with little success. Ominously, the Soviet Union has shifted its attention to Iran, which has been told it will have Moscow's support...
...Sadat?" he asked...
...Sadat sold Palestine to Israel...
Thus the key to Iraq's salvation may be Egypt-a bitter irony, since no Arab country has opposed the Camp David peace process more angrily than Iraq. Nor has anyone more outspokenly denounced the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for making peace with Israel than Saddam Hussein. But Sadat is dead, and his successor, President Hosni Mubarak, is anxious to end Egypt's estrangement from the other moderate Arab states...
...hour-long speech to the People's Assembly on the day after the return of the Sinai. At the same time, Mubarak has left little doubt that he will gradually seek to repair the ties with the Arab world that were broken when his predecessor, Anwar Sadat, signed the treaty with Israel. Mubarak will probably not waste much time on Libya or on Syria, which vowed last week to "foil all attempts to welcome Egypt back into the Arab world." But the improvement of relations with the moderate Arab states has already begun. Last week the Mubarak government announced...