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By STEVE K. HINDY
Associated Press Writer
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) President Anwar
Sadat, whose peace with Israel changed the
course of Middle East history, was
assassinated yesterday by six Egyptian
soldiers who jumped from a truck on military
parade and charged the reviewing stand
firing automatic weapons and throwing
grenades. Army sources said the attackers
were Moslem fundamentalists.
The official Middle East News Agency said
five people were killed in addition to Sadat,
including two foreigners and Bishop Samuel,
a leader of the Coptic Christian Church of
Egypt. The foreigners were not identified.
Sadat's death:
Local theories on
future of Egypt
By JACKIE MARTINO
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The assassination of President Anwar Sadat
prompted local comment on the Arab leader as
well as questions about the course Egyptian
politics will now take.
"Sadat was certainly a courageous individual,"
Rabbi Jeffrey Eisenstat, director of the Hillel
Foundation, said. "He stood up against all odds.
He knew his life was on the line three years ago
when he began the peace process with Israel. It
was he who made the whole peace process work."
Hussein El-Amach, leader of the. Organization
of Arab Students, said, "He was one of the
defenders for democracy and he was one of the
people who oppressed."
Sadat's death prompts speculation about
whether or not the Egyptian government is strong
enough to survive without its leader.
"I think it's too early to say what will happen in
Egypt," El-Amach said.
However, he added, "I believe there will be
change . . I think there will be a government totally
different from Sadat."
...FkAmach.said he does not see a possibility of a
' -. fundamentalist takeover, like that in Iran,
happening in Egypt. He also ruled out the
riossibility of an establishment of a communist
government.
"None of those will have substantial support to
gain power."
Luke Taiclet, undergraduate representative to
the Middle East Student Committee, said
Egyptian military actions in the next two weeks
will be a major indicator of future stability.
The acting president and former vice-president
Hosni Mubarak was Chief of Staff in the Egyptian
Air Force, he added.
"Personally speaking," Taiclet said, "I believe
it (Egypt) will survive the changeover." •
Threats to the country could come from Saudi
Arabia, in the form of monetary pressures, and
more overtly from Libya, who could take military
action against Egypt, he said.
Osama R. Muriesh, professor of mathematics
at the Capitol campus, said he does not think
Mubarak will stay in power. Instead, he sees a
military takeover as a definite possibility.
Sadat did not leave behind a strong pronounced
leader to succeed him, he said. The former vice
president only showed silent acceptance of
Sadat's policies, remaining in the background,
Nuriesh said.
Vernon Aspaturian, Evan Pugh political
science professor, said, "The power passes to that
person who can hold onto it, rather than that
person who simply has a legitimate title.
"The military is probably )he best organized
group now."
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The agency said 38 people were injured but
did not identify them.
An official medical bulletin issued by
MENA said Sadat arrived at Maadi Military
Hospital in a coma about 20 minutes after the
attack with several wounds and "blood
gushing out of the mouth."
The bulletin described the injuries as "two
holes in the left side of the chest, a bullet in the
neck, just above the right collar bone, a
wound above the right knee and a huge gash
at the back of the thigh, with a complicated
facture of the thigh."
It said "urgent treatment," including heart
massage and blood transfusions, failed and
that Sadat died at 2:40 p.m. (8:40 a.m. EDT)
Faculty Senate recommends tenure shift
By MARY BETH HORWATH
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The University Faculty Senate
passed a recommendation yesterday
that would permit college committees
to override college deans' decsions
regarding promotion and tenure,
should University President John W.
Oswald approve the proposal.
The recommendation was part of
PS-23, the University's policy
regarding promotion and tenure,
which the senate reviewed at it's
meeting yesterday. The senate also
reviewed a recommendation
suggesting that methods of evaluation
be selected by faculty members of
individual academic units.
That recommendation, which
concerned student evaluations, was
,tabled until it can be more clearly
explained.
The senate also tabled a
recommendation by the Committee on
Undergraduate Instruction regarding
correction of grade errors for students.
The committee suggested that
Academic Policy 48-30, which deals
with correction of grades, be amended
so that the correction procedure would
be simplified.
For example, if an instructor could
not be reached, the department head
would have the authority to change the
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grade in accordance with
departmental faculty policy.
However, the recommendation was
tabled when faculty members objected
to the word error. Several faculty
members said the recommendation
should only include procedures for
grade correction when the error was
arithmetic or computer-induced, and
should not include procedures for
students to question an instructor's
judgment.
"The instructor is supreme in
making grades," said John J. Cahir,
associate dean of the College of Earth
and Mineral Science. "You can't open
that door the tiniest crack."
Geolge W. Franz, assistant
professor of history at Delaware
County campus, said he had never
heard of that type of recommendation
"There has never been in senate
policy . a procedure for changing
grades by challenging the instuctors
judgment," he said.
Committee chairman Robert J.
Heinsohn said the recommendation did
include both types of grade errors.
"First and foremost, it is for fact
errors," he said. "But the other issues
don't go away."
George J. McMurtry, associate dean
of the College of Engineering,
suggested the recommendation be
with the cause of death attributed to "violent
nervous shock, internal bleeding in the chest
cavity with the left lung and major blood
vessels at the bottom of the left lung torn."
In Washington, Reagan administration
officials said elements of the U.S. Rapid
Deployment Force and'U.S. warships in the
Mediterranean azld Middle East "have been
placed on increased readiness" following the
assassination.
MENA said the funeral would be Saturday
and would be attended by many world
leaders
Sadat had been under attack by Moslem
fundamentalists who claim he betrayed Islam
and the Arab world through his peace with
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
tabled until the committee can address
both issues.
"You have the issues mixed up," he
said. "We haven't addressed the
questions."
But Chris Hopwood, president of the
Undergraduate Student Government's
Academic Assembly, said the
assembly wants the senate to address
both issues.
Deans oppose tenure proposal
By D.M. LAFFAN
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
University deans are the strongest opponents of a
recommendation, passed yesterday by the University
Faculty Senate, that challenges their power to block
promotion and tenure decisions.
The modification of the University's promotion and
tenure policy, PS-23, would allow committees that do not
agree with a dean's negative decision to override the
dean's veto and send it on for further consideration at a
University level.
The senate's action is only a recommendation, and must
be approved by University President John W. Oswald to
become policy.
With the present system, college committees can
recommend a certain faculty member for promotion or
tenure, but the dean can veto the recommendation and
thereby kill the entire proposal.
Henry J. Hermanowicz, dean of the College of
Education, said he preferred the present policy because a
Israel, which broke the cycle of three decades
of Mideast wars. Yesterday's parade marked
the anniversary of what Egypt calls a
"glorious Arab victory" in the last conflict of
that cycle the 1973 Arab war against Israel.
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The army sources said all six attackers,
including one lieutenant, were members of an
artillery unit. They said two were killed and
"Every day we have students
coming in complaining about their
grades," he said.
In other business, the senate passed
three recommendations fro'm the
Special Committee on Computer and
Information Systems. The
recommendations are now formal
proposals to Oswald. The
recommendations passed suggest:
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the others were being interrogated.
That report differed from an earlier
statement by Egypt's ambassador to
Washington, Ashraf Ghorbal. He said three
assassins were killed and three were
captured.
Although the official medical bulletin made
no mention of grenade wounds, Moussa
Sabry, editor of the Cairo daily Al Aklibar,
said Sadat had been hit by a grenade
fragment. Witnesses, including Argentine
Ambassador Luis Warckmeister who was on
the reviewing stand, said he saw the assassins
throw grenades.
The Egyptian government has not given
official word on the assassins' identities, their
ages, or their political and religious
affiliations.
Vice President Hosni Mubarak declared a
state of emergency and the ruling National
Democratic Party nominated him to succeed
Sadat.
Grief was expressed around the world at the
loss of a man President Reagan called "a
champion of peace." But there was rejoicing
in some Arab capitals and by Palestinians
who felt Sadat sold them out to the Israelis.
In Beirut, Lebanon, callers purporting to
speak for three•separate Egyptian opposition
groups, claimed responsibility.
The death was considered likely to bring a
new period of turmoil to the Mideast, and
Israeli opponents of the peace treaty were
gathering support for a last-ditch effort to
block Israel's withdraw from the Sinai.
The 62-year-old Sadat had enemies at home
and throughout the Middle East because of his
peace treaty with Israel and his recent
crackdown on hundreds of opposition figures
suspected of formenting Christian-Moslem -
strife in Egypt. He shared the 1978 Nobel
Peace Prize with Israeli Prime Minister
Menachem Begin after reaching the U.S.-
sponsored Camp David accords.
Last month he ordered the arrest of more
than 1,500 people, including fundamentalist
Moslems and Coptic Christian leaders, and
ordered private mosques to accept
government control.
The attackers were said to have shouted ;
"Glory to Egypt!" and yelled "Agents: and
intruders!" at foreigners on the reviewing
stand watching the parade.
Witnesses said the reviewing stand was
littered with bullet-riddled armchairs and
that bloodied dignitaries were thrown into
pandemonium by the attack.
It occurred shortly after 1 p.m. during a low
flyby by jet fighters. Explosions also were
heard, indicating grenades were thrown in the
attack, in the Cairo district of Nasr. Just
before the attack, Sadat was laughing heartily
with his top advisers while six Egyptian air
force jet fighters thundered overhead.
Most of the people in the stand behind Sadat
were watching the planes when they heard
"pop, pop, pop."
Young men, dressed in olive drab uniforms,
jumped from a moving truck and charged the
president, firing their weapons from their
shoulders.
Mubarak told the nation in a TV address
announcing the death of Sadat: "We are
accustomed to these wounds and we believe in
God's will and we will continue in the name of
the spirit and soul of our leader and our
constitution that we will abide by all treaties
and commitments made."
He said presidential elections will be held
within two months under constitutional
provisions for selecting a successor. In the
interim, the gdvernment will be headed by the
speaker of parliament, Sufi Abu Taleb.
'committee could advance a difficult decision to the
University level to avoid being held accountable.
He also said the dean holds final respo,nsibility for the
quality of a college.
"If a dean is to be held accountable, then he should also
have sufficient latitude in exercising authority,"
Hermanowicz said
Although Hermanowicz said he had vetoed positive
recommendations in the past, he did not think that the
college committee would often override his veto because
he did not reject a proposal without a legitimake reason.
C.A. Morehouse, professor of physical education, also
said he could not see the committee overriding the dean's
veto too often.
"But it's a good procedure in principle," he said.
Morehouse said that it was a question of deciding who
could settle the issue if the committee and the dean
disagree.
"The University committee would not deal with this as
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be replaced by an academic computer
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