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Your choice of Lech Walesa for Man of the Year is good, but not best. Anwar Sadat taught the world what Christ meant by forgive and forget. He overlooked historical grudges for the cause of peace...
Since he succeeded the assassinated Anwar Sadat in October, Mubarak has run Egypt with extreme caution. Last week, however, he shuffled his Cabinet for the first time, naming twelve new ministers out of 34. Surrendering some of the day-to-day duties of government, the President appointed as his new Prime Minister a veteran politician, Fuad Mohieddin, 55, who has been active in Egyptian public life for 20 years. Among the Cabinet members shifted: Interior Minister Nabawi Ismail, who was in charge of domestic security at the time Sadat was slain...
...himself; then, in the sun of St. Peter's Square, Mehmet Ali Agca, forging a new category of hatefulness, gunned down Pope John Paul II; finally, during an autumn celebration of Egypt's military might, four Islamic fanatics ran from out of the orderly pomp toward President Anwar Sadat, grenades and automatic fire flying...
...gang of assassins running toward a Cairo reviewing stand to gun down Anwar Sadat...
...Anwar Sadat, 62, President of Egypt, who led his country to war against Israel in 1973, then launched a peace initiative climaxed by one of the most dramatic gestures ever made by a head of state, his "sacred mission" to Jerusalem in 1977 to proclaim his willingness "to live in permanent peace and justice." The 1978 Camp David accords made him the only Arab leader to make peace with the Jewish state, but also made him anathema to many of his countrymen and culminated in his assassination...