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...TIME's article on Anwar Sadat seemed to gloss over his plotting with the Nazis as though it were a youthful prank...
...like President Anwar Sadat. In the Land of the Sphinx, he looms human just like you and me. I feel confident that he will fix his priorities right. For much too long, these were lost in the haze of grandeur and gun smoke. Now the interest of his people will come first. The abatement of Russian infiltration into the heart of the Arab world will be the next task. And if peace with Israel will mean putting a stop to 20 years of crippling war, he will...
EGYPT'S President Anwar Sadat paid a call last month on the family of the late Gamal Abdel Nasser, his political predecessor and mentor. Sadat had an urgent request: Could he have the $36,000 bulletproof Mercedes limousine that had been parked in the family garage ever since Nasser's death last September? No, replied the family; the car had belonged to the man, not the office. In the midst of a heated argument that followed, Nasser's impulsive son Khalid, 23, dashed to the garage, doused the Mercedes with gasoline, and set it afire...
Over double Scotches in his private drawing room, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat confided to an American visitor early last week that he might shortly move to consolidate his power. He had just dismissed his chief rival, left-leaning Vice President Ali Sabry (TIME, May 17), and he hinted at further moves to strengthen his hold. Even so, few expected him to move as quickly and boldly as he did. Later in the week, in rapid-fire succession, Sadat fired Egypt's tough Interior Minister Shaarawi Gomaa and accepted the resignations of War Minister General Mohammed Fawzi, Minister...
...Egypt's President, Anwar Sadat, 52, after seven months in power, is no longer the butt of scornful jokes. He is no longer referred to as a "caretaker," soon to be supplanted by a more powerful leader. Dispossessed aristocrats no longer mock him, and politicians are discovering unexpected talents. Like some Nileside Harry Truman, Sadat is running the most populous and most important Arab nation with far greater authority and efficiency than anyone had anticipated...