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...most notable change involved the first hesitant steps toward the on-again, off-again merger of Egypt and Libya. While Waldheim was in Damas cus, where he got an unexpectedly cordial reception from Syria's government heads, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was closeted at his country home, 50 miles north of Cairo, with Libya's mercurial strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Sadat had just concluded a jet-propelled, hush-hush tour of his own to two oil-rich neighbors and Syria. With Saudi Arabia's King Feisal and the Emir of Qatar, Sadat had discussed...
Angered by the Egyptian wariness toward unity, Gaddafi returned home to Tripoli. Two weeks later, the marchers set off on a 1,500-mile trek, vowing to stage a sit-in in Cairo's Republic Square until Egyptian President Anwar Sadat ended all opposition to the merger...
...beleaguered by an aggressive Israel-would agree to a complete merger with oil-rich, underpopulated Libya, the two countries could at last fulfill their Arab destiny. Gaddafi, 31, ruggedly handsome and undeniably charismatic, says that he would even settle into a back seat and let Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, 54, run the show as President of the new state...
...afford a cheap transistor, which is able to pick up most of the high-powered stations-including special services of the Voice of America, the BBC, Radio Moscow and Albania's Radio Tirana-as well as local broadcasts. On the night of a speech by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Cairo streets echo with the sound of his harsh voice...
Syria could help finance a Disney World on the Golan Heights, and Iraq and Algeria face each other in a super soccer stadium at Sharm el Sheikh. Yassir Arafat could retire on a pension, Anwar Sadat take a job as headwaiter in a kosher restaurant, and Colonel Gaddafi mount his white camel and ride off into the desert forever...