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...what does the act mean for the stability of Egypt? As in a mystery novel in which hardly a character is free of suspicion, Sadat had so many enemies that almost no political or religious group can be completely ruled out. He was despised as a traitor by Arab nationalist radicals at home as well as those in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and elsewhere. He was hated by Islamic fundamentalists both inside and outside Egypt, and their numbers, like their fervor, are on the increase. He was at odds with some of his country's Coptic Christians. He had quarreled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sadat: The Equations to Be Recalculated | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

Long a bitter foe of the Jewish state, he became Israel's only declared friend in a hostile region. A self-styled defender of the Palestinians, he was cursed as a traitor by the leaders of their cause. He preached the unity of Arab nations, but his policies shattered such fragile fraternity as existed, and isolated his country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sadat: He Changed the Tide of History | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

DIED. Manuel Urrutia Lleo, 79, Cuban judge who in January 1959 became the first provisional President of Fidel Castro's revolutionary government, only to be denounced as a traitor by Castro six months later and forced to resign; in New York City. Urrutia, who charged that Castro had transformed Cuba into a "Red hell," spent four years under house arrest and in asylum at the Venezuelan and Mexican embassies in Havana before gaining safe-conduct to the U.S., where he led a coalition of 22 anti-Castro exile groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 20, 1981 | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

A.W.O.L. is the story of a U.S.O. troupe drafted by army intelligence to infiltrate the island hideout of the notorious traitor, Alura. Alura is an old trouper herself with a weakness for show biz, and so does not suspect that the U.S.O. troupe is really there to discover how she has managed to kidnap and hold two thousand of our G.I.'s. In usual musical fashion, the entire cast breaks down into girlfriends and boyfriends. The U.S.O. troupe consists of three couples. Alura lives with her nearly-Frankensteinian lover, Max. Even the peripheral characters travel around in twos, and then...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Armies of the Night | 4/24/1981 | See Source »

...During this time, Hannah published a record number of stories in Esquire, where the native Mississippian confused the hell out of a lot of people with stories like "Dragged Fighting From His Tomb," the story of a homosexual Confederate Soldier who butchers his way into Pennsylvania, only to turn traitor to Jeb Stuart. Or "Midnight and I'm Not Famous Yet," a story about Vietnam, pro golf, incest and infantry tactics...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Sabres, Gentlemen, Sabres | 2/24/1981 | See Source »

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