Anwar Sadat

Egyptians have hardly noticed as the 30th anniversary of Anwar Sadat's death approached this week. It isn't only because they're too busy with ongoing political protests and labor strikes as the country zigzags toward democratic elections. They just don't care. To the young people who made the January 25 "revolution" in Tahrir Square, Sadat is a figure from a distant past. If they think of him at all, many are quick to curse him for making peace with Israel. There is little regret or grief over his assassination by Islamic extremists at a military parade in a Cairo suburb on Oct. 6, 1981.

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President Clinton opened a four-day diplomatic mission to the Middle East with a visit early this morning to the tomb of Anwar Sadat, the former Egyptian president whose dramatic trip to Jerusalem in 1977 eventually cost him his life but planted seeds of peace that now have borne fruit.

Egyptians have hardly noticed as the 30th anniversary of Anwar Sadat's death approached this week. It isn't only because they're too busy with ongoing political protests and labor strikes as the country zigzags toward democratic elections. They just don't care. To the young people who made the January 25 "revolution" in Tahrir Square, Sadat is a figure from a distant past. If they think of him at all, many are quick to curse him for making peace with Israel. There is little regret or grief over his assassination by Islamic extremists at a military parade in a Cairo suburb on Oct. 6, 1981.

Married May 29, 1949 At 15, Jehan Safwat Raouf was fascinated with politics, obsessed with devotion to her native Egypt. When she met Anwar Sadat, a 30-year-old revolutionary whom no one suspected would one day be president of the United Arab Republic, she was in awe. Days later, they were in love; months later, they were married.

The widow of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat will visit the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace today to tour exhibits and preview a new display. Jehan Sadat is scheduled to tour the library from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., where she will see a life-size statue of Anwar Sadat along with displays on the Middle East and on the close relationship between the two leaders. Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981.

A special Egyptian court hearing corruption charges against Esmat Sadat, eldest brother of the late President Anwar Sadat, ordered the confiscation of funds and property valued at $7.7 million. The decision by Cairo's Court of Ethics includes property owned by Esmat Sadat's four wives, children and their husbands or wives.

A nephew of President Anwar Sadat was sentenced to a year in prison for defaming Egypt's armed forces, less than a month after he gave an interview accusing generals of masterminding his uncle's assassination. The unusually rapid prosecution in effect terminated Talaat Sadat's role in parliament as an outspoken government critic.

Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi, comparing Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to Egypt's slain leader Anwar Sadat, said Sunday that Iraq might emerge from the Persian Gulf crisis a friend of the United States and Israel. "History always repeats itself," Kadafi said in a speech to political science students at Fatah University in Tripoli. He said President Sadat, gunned down by Muslim zealots in 1981, entered the 1973 Arab-Israeli War a sworn enemy of the United States and Israel, as Iraq is now.

A nephew of President Anwar Sadat was sentenced to a year in prison for defaming Egypt's armed forces, less than a month after he gave an interview accusing generals of masterminding his uncle's assassination. The unusually rapid prosecution in effect terminated Talaat Sadat's role in parliament as an outspoken government critic.

JERUSALEM -- On Nov. 19, 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat flew to Tel Aviv and told Israelis what they had waited decades to hear from an Arab leader: We welcome you into the Middle East. At that moment, Sadat -- who only four years earlier had led Egyptian troops in a surprise attack against the Jewish state on Yom Kippur -- became an Israeli hero.

For five years, the United States steadfastly refused to send Nabil Soliman back to Egypt, where he had been convicted in absentia of helping assassinate President Anwar Sadat. U.S. law prohibits deporting anyone to a country where prisoners might be tortured. But last month, Soliman landed in Cairo and was handed over for a retrial on charges connected with the 1981 slaying. What changed? U.S. officials say Egypt promised not to torture the man. But many here say that U.S.

Every few weeks, Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat makes a desperate appeal at the offices of the Arab League here for help with his people's struggle against Israel. And every few weeks, he leaves empty-handed. "One cannot expect miracles," Palestinian Cabinet minister Nabil Shaath told reporters on a visit here this week. "But let me say, there are practical, positive decisions that can be implemented."

Married May 29, 1949 At 15, Jehan Safwat Raouf was fascinated with politics, obsessed with devotion to her native Egypt. When she met Anwar Sadat, a 30-year-old revolutionary whom no one suspected would one day be president of the United Arab Republic, she was in awe. Days later, they were in love; months later, they were married.

President Clinton opened a four-day diplomatic mission to the Middle East with a visit early this morning to the tomb of Anwar Sadat, the former Egyptian president whose dramatic trip to Jerusalem in 1977 eventually cost him his life but planted seeds of peace that now have borne fruit.

G. H. Jansen's vituperative denunciation (Editorial Pages, March 8) of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's recent proposals for direct negotiations between Jordan and Israel, in concert with Egypt and the United States, is reminiscent of some reactions years ago to Anwar Sadat's initiative, which led to Camp David. Indeed, Jansen explicitly cites the Camp David precedent, but as grounds for condemnation of Mubarak. Why should this be? And why the slander of the Egyptians as "stupid" and of Mubarak as "just a lesser Anwar Sadat"?

Jehan Sadat brought her message of community service to 900 supporters of the Red Cross on Tuesday when she spoke at the organization's second annual Clara Barton Spectrum Awards luncheon. Taking her place beside the American and Red Cross flags--"they call it the Red Crescent in my country," she noted--the widow of slain Egyptian President Anwar Sadat told luncheon guests at the Hyatt Regency Irvine that her mission was to carry on her husband's work.

The dour, wiry Egyptian who captivated the world with his historic visit to Jerusalem and his proposition that peace between Arabs and Israelis is possible wasn't so convincing at home. Anwar Sadat has always been, in the Egyptian mind, part visionary, part traitor.