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...seconds the spectators sat frozen, apparently thinking that the assault was part of the show. Sadat rose as if preparing to salute the onrushing men. As the truth bore in with each relentless round of fire, the sounds of frightened screams and crashing chairs exploded, and the crowd stampeded for the exits at the rear. Sadat was struck by bullets or fragments. Others fell around him. "I pulled the President down, and someone else tried to shield him with a couple of chairs," Abu Ghazala said later. "I felt the bullets flying all around me. I could feel the heat...
...peace process initiated by Sadat ultimately bore fruit at Camp David the next year. Over a period of 13 days, Sadat, Begin and Jimmy Carter remained cloistered in that Maryland mountain retreat while they hammered out their historic "framework for peace." (Their joint efforts brought Sadat and Begin the Nobel Peace Prize for 1978.) The Camp David principles were embodied in a formal treaty that was signed by the three leaders in an emotional White House ceremony on March 26, 1979. For the first time in 31 years, Egypt and Israel were no longer in a state...
...Sadat bore with fortitude the loneliness that is inseparable from moving the world from familiar categories toward where it has never been. He raised our gaze toward heretofore unimaginable horizons. And when he had transformed the paradox and solved the riddle, he was killed by the apostles of the ordinary, the fearful, the merchants of the ritualistic whom he shamed by being at once out of scale and impervious to their meanness of spirit...
True Confessions certainly will not bore anyone; nor will it insult the intelligence nor test the patience. A solid citizen of the movie world, it probably will age well and linger pleasantly in the mind. But with the raw material available to its creators, it could have done more, made more of a difference. Like its ultimately disappointed priest, True Confessions might have walked with the angels, but instead settled for life with us mortals...
...Sierra Club-sponsored petition, which bore 1530 Harvard signatures, asked for Watt's dismissal and accused him of "sabotaging conservation goals supported by a vast majority of the American people. "It also accused Watt of "representing private economic interests rather than following the laws that define his responsibilities...