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Amid tumult and shouting, the Sadat assassination trial begins...
...When Defense Minister General Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala signaled me to go away, I told him to get out of the way. I don't want you,' I said. 'I want this dog, this tyrant Sadat...
...that dramatic public confession, First Lieut. Khaled Ahmed Shawki Islambuli, 24, a stocky artillery officer in the Egyptian army, last week told a three-judge military tribunal how he had assassinated President Anwar Sadat during a military parade on Oct. 6. Islambuli is accused of leading the four-man hit team that jumped out of a truck during the parade and charged the reviewing stand, firing automatic weapons and hurling grenades. Seven other people died in the attack, and 28 were wounded...
Throughout the trial, which has been closed except for two brief public sessions, the defendants have been confined in a large steel-barred cage. One defendant, who is still suffering from wounds incurred in the attack on Sadat, lies on a stretcher on the floor. When not in the courtroom, the defendants are kept in solitary confinement. Their attorneys charged at the opening of the trial that they had been beaten and tortured. Last week, however, they seemed in good spirits, clasped copies of the Koran and called out to relatives in the courtroom...
...honest folk at Southland Corporation, though, have done their best to keep some measure of realism in Christmas 1981. Ronald Reagan, John Paul II, Anwar Sadat all were felled by gunmen this year; what, then, could be more topical, more true to life, than a board game called "Assassin...