University of Denver - Kynewisbok Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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Dun... Mon!- n Tuesday, October 5, 1981, Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, was assassinated. Sadat and several of his highest government officials were at- tacked by a group of men wearing military uniforms during a military parade in a Cairo suburb. As several jets overhead roared by in precise for mation, one of the trucks with troops passing by suddenly halted in front of the presidents reviewing stand and out tumbled the assassins, firing machine guns and throwing hand grenades and other incendiary devices. Within seconds the mission was accomplished: at the height of a parade designed to show off the might power and security of Egypt against attack by her enemies, the countryls leadership was instantly reduced to a confused pile of bodies writhing under a heap of overturned chairs. For several hours the official word from Cairo was that the President had been wounded but was not in a iilife- threatening situation. But slowly the news began to filter out. One by one the major American TV networks, led by CBS, and the international wire services relayed the somber message, still officially denied, from a number of usually highly reliable sources: Sadat had not survived. The networks, which began reporting the attack on the morning news shows, stayed on the air until early afternoon, pre-empting all scheduled programming until the of- ficial announcements were made. Just before noon Denver time, Egyptian Vice-President Hosni Mubarak went on Egyptian TV to advise his nation of the tragedy and announce various cabinet decisions. A state of emergen- cy for one year was declared. Shortly after, President Reagan appeared on the White House north steps to make a short, eloquent speech about the slain leader, whom he regarded as a personal friend, although they had on- ly met for the first time two months earlier when Sadat had paid him a visit in Washington. As the President was citing Sadatls courage, statesman- ship and foresight, no doubt he was remembering the kindness and con- cern the now dead leader had shown towards him after Reagan himself had been on the receiving end of an assassin's gunfire. In Israel, Prime Minister Begin said that Sadat had been murdered by the uenemies of peacefl but vowed that the Camp David peace process 4,: would continue, iias President Sadat would have wished? While the Western democracies mourned the loss of the former self- confessed hater of Israel who had, in the last five years, dared to stand up for peace in the Middle East, many of his former allies in the Arab world openly rejoiced at his death. Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy warned that future Egyptian leaders who followed Sadatls traitorous policies would meet the same fate. Sadafs murder led most com- mentators to worry about the whole balance of power in the Middle East. Would his successors pursue peace with Israel at the expense of peace with other Arab countries as he had done? Was Camp David in jeopardy? Should the Saudis now be allowed to have those AWAC planes they wanted to buy, or would that make the area even more unstable? It seemed as if Reagan would, in the months to come, have to face in the Middle East an even greater threat of Soviet destabilization than he was at the time monitoring in Poland. But it was former President Jimmy Carter who, only hours after Sadatis passing, summed up what the Egyptian leader had meant to him and the world: of the hundred or so world leaders he had met in his time in public office, said Carter, Anwar Sadat was the greatest. horror. ciliation among peoples? SOME OPINION S ON SADATiS DEATH ttHis death today, an act of infamy, cowardly infamy, fills us with America has lost a close friend, the world has lost a great statesman and mankind has lost a champion of peace? - President Reagan ttThe world has lost one of the best among us? - French President Francois Mitterand ttI pray to omnipotent God that he will want to give peace to this man of peace and carry to completion his noble vision of recon- - Pope J ohn Paul II ttSadat was one of the great personalities of this century? - Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky tttHei abandoned the deep internal problems of his country to devote himself to external affairs, and he paid for it? - Exiled former Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr tiWe certainly donit mourn the death of Anwar Sadat? - Chairman of the US. J ewish Defense League Meir J olovitz. uIt was Camp David that killed Sadat? - Lebanese Prime Minister Shafik Wazzan ttWe shake the hand that fired the bullets? - PLO high-ranking leader Salah Khalaf 21

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WORLD WE WED N TM The year in quotes ttExecution by the state looses a stench deeper than murder on the . street . . . Maybe we are not punishing the inutderer so much as we are servmg medicine to ourselves . . . for when no one IS killed by the state, then perhaps there is nothing to restrain all that is ready to fly loose 1n ourselves? -Norman Mailer, writing in the Washington Post iiParaddi magazine, Feb. 1981. 01 put to you this question: Is a society redeemed if it provides massive safeguards for accused persons, including pre-trial freedom for most crimes, defense lawyers at public expense, trials, appeals, re-trials and more appealse almost without end-and yet fails to provide elementary protection for its decent law-abiding citizens? -Chief Justice Warren Burger, speaking to the American Bar Association in Houston, Texas, Feb., 81. 01 did not subvert the system, I am the system? -Convicted Watergate conspirator, Gordon Liddy, speaking in Boulder, April 81. ttThe troubling fact is that Liddy is a marketable product at all? -Wes Blomster, writing in Westword, April 81. iiThe fierce, unabating abortion controversy in this country is not over the moment one biological life commences. It,s over the tragic moment when two rights conflict . . . There are those who believe that a woman forced to maintain a pregnancy against her will is nothing more than a vessel, and those who believe that a woman who has an abortion is a murderer? -Syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman, Rocky Mountain News, May 1981. ttThere is no exaggeration that can ac- curately describe how fast the future is approaching our state . . . Conservative predictions call for a 5096 increase in population within the 13 Front Range counties by the year 2000 - thatis 1.25 million peopleV -Colo. Gov. Richard Lamm, writing in the Denver Posts Empire magazine, Sept. 6, 1981. WiHiam Thach