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...nuclear weapons are planted in Canadian soil...
That sense of belonging was one of the guiding forces of Sadat's life. "I can never lose my way because I know that I have living roots in the soil of my village," he wrote in his 1978 autobiography, In Search of Identity. One of 13 children, Sadat was born on Christmas Day, 1918, in the Nile Delta village of Mit Abu el Kom. His father was a military hospital clerk, his mother an illiterate Sudanese. He spent his early years working in the fields and attending the village kuttab, an Islamic school where he learned to read...
...from Black African capitals, added to the sense of confusion. More recently, a Reagan Administration's effort to back South Africa officially in certain areas has become clear, most prominently its pledge to veto any resolution in the U.N. security council explicitly condemning Pretoria for its invasion of Angolan soil. In addition, several minor but concrete concessions have been made by the U.S. to the South Africans, most notably a plan to increase the number of military attaches in each country...
...ministers in Bonn. The ministers were sufficiently impressed to urge Weinberger to make the study public so they could use it to defuse opposition in their own countries to hikes in defense spending, as well as to the planned basing of U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles on European soil...
...NATO and despite a reputation for laxity--a long-hair and unionized army--it has always been a solid citizen of the alliance. But the Dutch never took much interest in the politics of the Cold War, hoping that the missiles, if they ever flew, would pass over European soil...