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...gang of assassins running toward a Cairo reviewing stand to gun down Anwar Sadat...
...Anwar Sadat, 62, President of Egypt, who led his country to war against Israel in 1973, then launched a peace initiative climaxed by one of the most dramatic gestures ever made by a head of state, his "sacred mission" to Jerusalem in 1977 to proclaim his willingness "to live in permanent peace and justice." The 1978 Camp David accords made him the only Arab leader to make peace with the Jewish state, but also made him anathema to many of his countrymen and culminated in his assassination...
...National Liberation Front in the Philippines. He runs a dozen or more training camps for guerrilla warfare, with advisers supplied by East Germany and Cuba, and is reported to have a slush fund of $1 billion a year for terrorist activities alone. He allegedly tried four times to have Sadat killed, and the Presidents of Niger, the Sudan and Tunisia have all accused Gaddafi of trying to oust them...
...largely symbolic and may well collapse, as the others did, in recrimination. In 1973 Gaddafi ordered an Egyptian submarine, temporarily under his command in Libyan waters, to torpedo the Queen Elizabeth II, which was carrying hundreds of Jews from Southampton to Haifa to celebrate Israel's 25th anniversary. Sadat, who was then still on speaking terms with Gaddafi, countermanded the order. Over the past decade, Gaddafi has continually tried to get hold of an atom bomb?so far with no success, although Libya has two small nuclear facilities (one built by the Soviets, the other by the French...
...grave robbing, the Indian war cries should come as no surprise. Only a few months ago, militant Orthodox Jews in Israel clashed with police during protests against excavations in an area of Old Jerusalem considered sacred ground, a medieval Hebrew cemetery. A year before his death, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat urged that Cairo's collection of mummies be closed to the public and eventually reburied. They were not merely objects of scientific or public curiosity but hallowed human remains and thus deserving of respect...