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...months ago, in a televised statement of aims and aspirations that took nearly three hours to deliver, President Anwar Sadat informed 35 million fellow Egyptians that "the stage of total confrontation" with Israel was soon to begin. To prepare for it, Sadat, 55, reshuffled his government and named himself Premier and Military Governor General in addition to President and Commander in Chief of the armed forces. He visited front-line posts in uniform and was photographed peering through field glasses at Israeli fortifications. "We believe in our destiny," said Sadat. "We do not shrink from any sacrifice...
President Anwar Sadat of Egypt said in a message delivered in his name to a Moscow meeting that he and President Hafez Assad of Syria are fighting "a war of liberation with the objective of establishing a just peace...
...same time, he said, Libya's revolutionary regime, Egypt's President Anwar el-Sadat, and organizations like the Palestine Liberation Organization, place pressure on conservative Arab leaders such as King Faisal of Saudi Arabia to use the oil weapon...
...anybody-Arab or Israeli -accepted Hussein's insistence that his decision had been made simply in the interests of "national unity." A more likely reason seemed to be the interests of international Arab unity. A week earlier, Hussein flew to Cairo for a summit meeting with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Syrian President Hafez Assad (TIME, Sept. 24). The meeting marked the end of Jordan's isolation by much of the Arab world, an isolation that had largely been brought about by Hussein's unrelenting hard line toward the fedayeen...
...seemed like another case of overkill. The summit was certainly noteworthy, if only for the fact that Jordan's King Hussein, who for three years has been shunned by most of his Arab brethren, traveled to Cairo to confer with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Syrian President Hafez Assad. But their meeting produced no immediate plans for unified action...