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Byrd's decision was probably inevitable, given his standing as leader of the Democrats, who overwhelmingly oppose AWACS. His timing was devastating. The White House had lost momentum on all its arguments: that after the death of Anwar Sadat, the U.S. must support moderate Arab nations; that Israel was trying to dictate American policy; that the President's credibility was at stake; that the AWACS sale would make Saudi Arabia a bulwark against the Soviets...
...dismay of some and the delight of a few, Richard Nixon was back in the headlines. Ronald Reagan had asked him to join ex-Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter in the official U.S. delegation to the funeral of Egypt's Anwar Sadat. Then, mysteriously, Nixon had embarked on a private week's tour of Middle Eastern and North African capitals, fueling rumors that he was acting as an unofficial emissary for Reagan. (Not so, say both Nixon and the White House.) Just back from that trip, Nixon talked with TIME's Washington Contributing Editor Hugh Sidey...
...heard it for years: 'Don't let the cradle of civilization be its grave.' Well, now the threat is true. A Middle East war could never be contained." The moderate Arabs to whom Nixon talked liked Egypt's new President, Hosni Mubarak, better than Sadat, Nixon found. But it is vital, he argues, that the U.S. should push ahead with the Camp David peace plan, that the Palestine Liberation Organization must recognize Israel's right to exist ("That can happen") and that this country "not allow a vacuum to be left on the Palestinian issue...
...assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has given new impetus to the antiwithdrawal movement, some of whose supporters openly rejoiced over Sadat's murder. They argue that international law recognizes that circumstances change, and believe that in a national referendum, which they hope will be called, Israeli voters would reject the Sinai withdrawal...
...caused more friction than fraternity, notably the 1973 joint award to North Viet Nam's Le Due Tho and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, for their role in ending the Viet Nam War; and the 1978 prize to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for the Camp...