Word: anwar
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...about every part that isn't suitable for Richard Pryor, 42, or Eddie Murphy, 22. Coming off his Academy Award-winning performance in last year's An Officer and a Gentleman, Gossett is now working on a four-hour TV biography of Egypt's late President Anwar Sadat. The tough bootcamp bearing Gossett picked up during his stint in Officer should come in handy. For Sadat picks up the Egyptian leader's life when he was a junior military officer renowned for his rigid back and fierce determination...
...Bolstered by their religious zeal-and, more practically, by a flow of arms and supplies from abroad-they are grimly determined to rid their homeland of the hated invader. "The Islamic faith is the force behind our jihad [holy war]," says Rebel Unit Commander Mohammed Anwar. "If we thought this was an ordinary battle, we could not fight the Soviets...
...sleep in blankets on the dirt floors amid mangled stoves and the carcasses of homes. They are forced to spend less time on training than on tending scant wheat crops or washing clothes. "I've told the freedom fighters to start cultivating and doing farm work," sighs Mohammed Anwar, while making bread. "But it is difficult when mujahedin must do this...
...Kalb, since Schmidt speaks English well and can be "irritable and irritating." Kalb also finds Menachem Begin fascinating because "he says what he feels." Interesting historical question: Would the Middle East have been different, at least in American eyes, had Yasser Arafat been as personally appealing and articulate as Anwar Sadat...
...Guido Goldman, to wine and dine the evening away at New York City's Pierre Hotel last week, the 400 guests included such luminaries as former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, former President Gerald Ford, Secretary of State George Shultz and the widows of the Shah of Iran, Anwar Sadat, Lyndon Johnson and Nelson Rockefeller. Asked how he felt about getting older, Kissinger remained loyal to his generation. "When I was young, I thought people who were 60 were of another species," said the new sexagenarian. "Now I think the young...