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Unseen by the audience, half a dozen plainclothesmen, some armed with light antitank weapons, stood between the President and a column of tanks. South Korea's President had not forgotten that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was killed last October during a military parade. "Since Sadat," said one U.S. observer, "these military exercises make some folks nervous...
Kollek's friends have ranged from Anwar Sadat, who called him "the most famous mayor in the world," to Frank Sinatra and Marlene Dietrich. Another friend is Saul Bellow, who has provided a vivid portrait: "Kollek is ponderous but moves quickly-a furiously active man. His is a hurtling, not a philosophical soul. His face does not rest passively on its jowls ... His reddish hair falls forward when he goes into action... Everyone serves his ends, and no one seems harmed by such serving...
...list of recent events that have surprised reporters-the fall of the Shah in Iran, the upsurge of feeling against Anwar Sadat in Egypt, the suppression in Poland by Polish rather than Soviet troops-the world press can add last week's elections in El Salvador...
...opinion of Sadat, I formerly considered him one of the great statesmen of this century; I now think he is one of the greatest statesmen of all time...
...Egypt, the press misjudged Anwar Sadat's popularity with his own people. With his bold gesture to Israel, Sadat was the first modern Arab to capture the non-Arab world's fancy. He was so articulate, attractive and reasonable in chatting with "Barbara" or "Walter" or "John." When in the last weeks of Sadat's life, he arrested upwards of 1,000 critics, the mind-set in the Western press was that he was overreacting to domestic opposition. Not until after his assassination did Western journalists learn how little loved he was at home...