Word: sadat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After pondering how best to demonstrate its support of post-Sadat Egypt...
Commited to Sadat's foreign policy, he must now restore confidence at home...
...more than six years he had been Anwar Sadat's closest aide and heir apparent; last week he succeeded his slain mentor as President of Egypt. As the People's Assembly chanted, "Long live the Arab Republic of Egypt," Hosni Mubarak, 53, took the oath of office and pledged, as he had done immediately after Sadat's death, to follow his predecessor's policies. "This is my fate," he said, "to stand before you in his absence. Egypt is stable. The greatest tribute we can pay him is to follow his course." Mubarak affirmed Egypt...
...atmosphere of deliberate calm, Mubarak launched a purge, including the transfer of hundreds of army officers and civil servants of "fanatical religious tendencies" to less sensitive posts, and an investigation of the failure of military intelligence to detect the presence of the armed assassins who gunned down Sadat. He also authorized the "preventive" arrests of several hundred known civilian extremists of both the left and right and asked the People's Assembly for legislation imposing the death penalty on anyone found guilty of unlawful use of firearms...
Reagan Administration decided on a military response. At the end of his trip to Cairo to attend Sadat's funeral, Secretary of State Alexander Haig announced that the U.S. was ready to accelerate and increase the supply of arms to both Egypt and its southern ally, the Sudan. Furthermore, said Haig, the U.S. would take part next month in a "very extensive joint military exercise" with Egyptian forces. The Pentagon also sent out two AW ACS planes to patrol the skies of Egypt and the Sudan against possible Libyan attack, and was considering a bombing run on Egyptian desert...