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Many staffers contributed to this project. The main story was written by Lance Morrow, who already has to his credit three Man of the Year covers (The Middle Americas, 1969; Kissinger and Nixon, 1972; American Women, 1975). Much of the reporting was done by Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, who has known Sadat since 1953. In his 1959 biography of Gamal Abel Nasser, Wynn picked Sadat as "one of the most remarkable members" of Egypt's then emerging leadership. For this week's story, Wynn talked with Sadat, his wife Jihan, and many Egyptians who know Sadat well...
Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart joined Wynn for an exclusive interview, in which Sadat revealed for the first time the background of events that led to his memorable decision. The profile of the Egyptian President's personal, private side was written by National Political Correspondent Robert Ajemaian, who spent many hours with Sadat. The story on Egypt's culture and economy was reported by Correspondent William Stewart and written by Gerald Clarke. Two other figures made major writing contributions to the section: Anwar Sadat and Henry Kissinger, Senior World Reporter-Researcher Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo and Susan Reed...
...What I want from this visit," Sadat had told TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn during the historic flight that took him to Jerusalem, "is that the wall created between us and Israel, the psychological wall, be knocked down." The wall fell. The astonishing spectacle was global theater?the images caromed off television satellites to viewers around the world. In a wash of klieg lights, the Egyptian who had hurled his armies across the Suez Canal in 1973 stood at attention next to the old Irgun guerrilla whose name has been a dark legend to Palestinian Arabs for 30 years...
...Cairo last February, President Sadat told TIME Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart and Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn that he would not meet with any Israeli leader "as long as there is an Israeli soldier on my land." Reminded of his words in another interview with Gart and Wynn just before Christmas, Sadat was asked to explain why he had changed his mind. He replied at length, and then went on to discuss other major Middle East issues...
...husband during the four major crises of his career: the 1952 revolution that overthrew King Farouk, an attempted coup by ambitious leftists in 1971, the October War of 1973, and his journey to Jerusalem in November. Last month, in an interview with TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, she recalled in revealing fashion these pivotal moments...