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...good or ill, on the course of events over the past twelve months. We usually keep that selection a secret until our year-end issue goes to press, but there could be litle surprise about 1977's choice. Indeed, the world's press watched as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat helicoptered to the Pyramids on the edge of the desert and joined Photographer David Hume Kennerly to pose for the formal portrait that opens TIME's story. Close to 1,000 newsmen who were camped at the nearby Mena House Hotel to cover the peace talks watched...
...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, who has a master's degree in Middle Eastern studies, researched the Man of the Year Stories...
...called it "a sacred mission," and history may judge it so. By the trajectory of his 28-minute flight from a base in the Canal Zone to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat changed the course of Middle Eastern events for generations to come. More emphatically than anything that has happened there since the birth of Israel in 1948, his extraordinary pilgrimage transformed the political realities of a region blackened and embittered by impermeable hatreds and chronic war. In one stroke, the old rules of the Arab-Israeli blood feud no longer applied. Many...
...Said Anwar Sadat: "We used to reject you, true. We refused to meet you anywhere, true. We referred to you as the 'socalled Israel,' true. At international conferences our representatives refused to exchange greetings with you, true. At the 1973 Geneva Peace Conference our delegates did not exchange a single direct word with you, true. Yet today we agree to live with you in permanent peace and justice. Israel has become an accomplished fact recognized by the whole world and the superpowers. We welcome you to live among us in peace...
...Harold Evans in the Sunday Times, where Holden spent twelve of his 24 years as a journalist. Evans dispatched five reporters to the Middle East to look into Holden's death. In Cairo, Egyptian Interior Minister Nabawy Ismail took charge of the case at the insistence of President Anwar Sadat. Neither Egyptian officials nor Holden's colleagues know why he was killed. But most people familiar with the case agree on one point: the motive was probably not robbery...