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...Ford and Carter were ready for their joint press conference. There was shock in Jerusalem and surprise in Washington when they agreed that sooner or later the U.S. would have to deal with the Palestine Liberation Organization, as the search for Middle East peace resumed in the wake of Sadat's death. Jody Powell found himself running the Xerox machine as in days of yore. And some travelers thought they saw in Rosalynn's eyes a longing for the old grandeur. So it went, on the most remarkable jet journey of our time...
...they have in the face of past legal actions, officials of Moon's church said that he and the church were the victims of Government harassment. Mose Durst, president of the U.S. branch of the church, linked the indictment with "the assassination of President Sadat, the attempted assassinations of President Reagan and the Pope," and charged the Government with "the attempted assassination of the Rev. Mr. Moon and the 3 million members of the Unification Church." He contended that the money in Moon's account had been "held in the Rev. Mr. Moon's name...
Across the Islamic world, from Tripoli to Tehran, the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was celebrated by bursts of bullets from every revolutionary's favorite automatic weapon. More than 10 million AK-47s, designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov, are now in circulation throughout the world...
...wake of Sadat's murder, how was tribute paid to the memory of this man? With wreaths of weaponry, offered Sin the name of peace. As a war ing to Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, whose country as a veritable Soviet arsenal, U.S Secretary of State Alexander Haig promised to speed shipments of new bombers and tanks to Egypt. An American, delegation visited the Sudan where Libya's Soviet-supplied jets have been bombing border villages, and promised to try to deliver quickly $100 million worth of military equipment to a jittery President Gaafar Nimeiri. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Margaret...
...Wisconsin: "Using such justifications as 'The business is good for our balance of payments' or 'If we do not sell weapons, someone else will,' the arms merchants and their government spokesmen are turning the world into a vast armed camp." The long line of weapons that helped seal Sadat's friendship with the U.S. were paraded past his grandstand through the dusty streets of an impoverished country where the per capita income is $460, and 42% of the budget is spent on the military...