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Sadat death called tragedy for entire world
Eyewitness recounts shooting
Editor's Note: AP Correspondent Steven
K. Hindy was in a grandstand behind
President Anwar Sadat when men
dressed in Egyptian army uniforms
opened fire from a vehicle in a military
parade. This is his account.
By STEVEN K. HINDY
Associated Press Writer
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) Just before it
happened, President Anwar Sadat was
laughing heartily with his top advisers. It
was a major anniversary for him the
day that in Egypt marks a "glorious
Arab victory" in the 1973 Arab war
against Israel.
Thousands of Egypt's finest soldiers
and its best tanks and armor yesterday,
Oct. 6, 1981, had flowed past the review
ing stand in the first 90 minutes of the
parade, their guns lowered in salute to
President Sadat and other dignitaries.
At one point, paratroopers marched up
to a few yards in front of the reviewing
stand to salute the 62-year-old president.
Then about 1:05 p.m. (7:05 a.m., EDT),
six Egyptian air force jet fighters thun
dered over the reviewing stand, trailing
red, blue, white and yellow smoke. Most
of us in the grandstands behind Sadat
were watching the jets.
Then we heard the "pop, pop, pop" of
automatic weapons' fire.
Lowering my eyes, I saw two young,
bareheaded men in military uniforms on
the back of a moving truck firing at the
reviewing stand. The thought flashed
through my mind, "It's part of the
show!"
Then I saw the young men leap from
the moving vehicle and charge the presi
dent. They were dressed in olive-drab
fatigues and fired their weapons from
their shoulders as they raced about 20
yards from the parade roadway to the
three-foot-high reviewing stand.
An Egyptian television cameraman,
sitting near the presidential platform,
said later he saw six assassins in all and
heard them shout: "Glory to Egypt!
Attack! You are agents! You are intrud
ers!"
(In Washington, the Egyptian ambas
sador to.the United States, Ashraf Ghor
bal, said three of the assassins Were
killed and three captured.)
Others at the scene said the attackers
threw hand grenades. I heard two muf
fled explosions, iiut it was 'diffictilt -to
Congress may delay consideration
By BARRY SCHWEID
and DONALD M. ROTHBERG
Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON (AP) The assassination of
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat prompted con
gressional leaders yesterday to urge a slowdown
in consideration of President Reagan's arms sale
to Saudi Arabia.
Senate Republican leader Howard H. Baker,
who supports the sale, said Congress should
"should place a moratorium on our worrying
about" the $8.5 billion arms package.
But Baker, who said he thinks the arms pack
age is gaining support in Congress, said he was
thinking of a delay of only about a week, not an
indefinite postponment.
"I really don't think that the assassination of
President Sadat ought to be a determining fac-
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hear anything distinctly. The jets were
still zooming in loops and sharp turns
overhead, apparently unaware of what
was happening below.
From my vantage point about 100
yards behind and to the left of President
Sadat, I saw military police wearing red
berets rushing toward the assassins and
toward those in the reviewing stand
generals, Moslem and Christian clergy
men and diplomats, all sitting around the
president.
The wounded diplomats and soldiers
were scattered among the overturned
chairs on the platform. Sadat apparently
was the first to be rushed to the hospital.
After becoming aware of the tragedy,
the crowd of military men and govern
ment officials around me stampeded,
screaming and falling over each other. I
saw a frantic father trying to pull his
terrified son from under an overturned
chair.
The area in front of the grandstand was
jammed with soldiers and police. A tall,
hatless general stood on the reviewing
stand, waving wildly.
Fighting my way toward the reviewing
stand, I saw knots of police beating two
young men, perhaps the assassins.
Bloodied clergymen, diplomats and mili
tary men were being lifted from the
reviewing stand to stretchers. Ambu
lances with sirens wailing pushed
through the crowds to get to the
wounded.
Shooting broke out among one of the
groups of police, and a portly man in a
gray leisure suit was bundled away by a
group of soldiers;
It was 1:20 p.m. before the red berets
joined hands and stopped spectators
from entering the area of the attack.
Behind the grandstands, cars with horns
blaring were racing among the 'crowd
trying to evacuate the wounded.
By 1:30 p.m., Egyptian police in white
uniforms stood arm-to-arm, two-deep, on
both sides of the route that leads out of
the parade grounds. Ambulances and
private cars carrying wounded sped be
tween them.
The jets had gone. The police and
residents of the nearby housing projects
stood dumbfounded, looking toward the
reviewing stand, its chairs toppled over.
An awful silence hung over the Cairo
suburb, called "Victory City."
tor," said Baker, who added that "I think it will
have an effect."
Meanwhile, at Reagan's request, the House
Foreign Affairs Committee postponed for a day
its vote on a resolution to veto the sale. Two-thirds
of the panel are on record for halting delivery of
the weapons. The vote was rescheduled for today.
Baker's comments seemed to reflect a wide
spread sentiment that both sides would be well
served by delaying a decision long enough to
assess the effect of Sadat's death on the region.
"A delay would be very popular on the Hill,"
said a senior congressional aide who has been
closely involved in efforts to revise terms for the
sale.
Debate on the arms package focused on wheth
er it is essential to help the Saudis or if the slaying
was further evidence of instability and a reason to
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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat looks on as a wreath is placed at the tomb of
the unknown soldier before the 6th of October military parade yesterday. Sadat
was later shot and killed by soldiers - riding in the parade.
block new weapons deliveries to the region
Baker, who ' has been directing the effort to Hatch was one of a dozen Republicans targeted
rescue the package in the Senate, said he now is by Reagan and his strategists for a heavy dose of
"fearful" about the prospects for peace in the , presidential lobbying. The Senate GOP leadership
Middle East. "I'm very concerned about the estimates it would take that many switches from
destabilizing effect," he said. the ranks of the opposition and the uncommitted
In the Senate, where the $8.5 billion package to forestall a veto
faced a formidable front of critics, some Demo
crats and Republicans suggested the president
may now be able to argue more persuasively that
it is essential to bolster moderate regimes in the
Middle East
One of 19 Republican opponents immediately
switched in favor of the sale of AWACS radar
planes and jetfighter equipment.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said, "I'm going to
reverse my vote on AWACS and support the
president. We have to have the safeguards this
übarak nominated to succeed Sadat
By MAGDA EL-SANGA
Associated Press Writer
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) Vice President Hosni Muba
rak, officially nominated yesterday to succeed assassi
nated President Anwar Sadat, is a former air force
commander Sadat chose as his successor.
According to the constitution, Parliament speaker
Sufi Abu Taleb will be acting president until elections
are held within 60 days. But Mubarak, Sadat's right
hand man since the president's stunning trip to Jerusa
lem in 1977 to negotiate peace with Israel, is expected to
be the dominant force in the interim government.
The official Middle East News Agency said the
Politburo of the ruling National Democratic Party,
formed by Sadat in 1978, met in emergency session
hours after Sadat was assassinated yesterday. They
nominated Mubarak as the party's candidate for presi
dent in the election, and he was expected to be unop
posed.
Killing may slow Mideast talks
By 11. GREGORY NOKES
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) The Egyptian and Israeili
ambassadors predicted yesterday that the Camp David
peace process will survive the assassination of Anwar
Sadat, but the death clearly complicates the quest for a
lasting Mideast settlement.
Sadat staked his career and his life on the Camp
David accord and on gOod relations with the United
States. His death raised immediate questions whether
his successors could, or would, follow that path.
Though Sadat's successor, vice president Hosni Mu
barak, is considered a staunch friend Of the United
States, it simply is not known whether his government
will be strong enough to follow Sadat's policies —unpop
ular among Egypt's Arab neighbors and among Sadat's
domestic opponents.
"'We are very, very worried," said an Israeli source
here who did not want to be identified. "It's a very
severe realization how shaky the situation in Egypt is,
and how shaky the peace is." '
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In the opposing camp, Sen. Joseph Biden, D-
Del., said of the Sadat assassination, "I think it
underscores the instability of the region."
Another appeal for delay came from Senate
Democratic leader Robert C. Byrd who urged the
Senate to "take a step back . . . until we see how
things fall into place."
Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., assistant minority
leader and a leading opponent of the sale, pre-
Mubarak, who as air force commander led the suc
cessful first strike on Israeli forces in the occupied Sinai
in 1973, was named vice president in April, 1975 to
everyone's surprise including his own.
"I am a man whb likes to do his work perfectly and
faithfully," he told the daily Al-Akhbar shortly after his
appointment. "My life has been a series of surprises."
Mubarak told the interviewer the president called him
for a long meeting in which he outlined Egypt's posi
tions in political, military and international affairs.
Sadat also told Mubarak he wanted his air force
commander to become his understudy. Mubarak quoted
Sadat as saying, "Who knows what might happen?"
Egyptian political analysts saw the appointment of
Mubarak as vice president as Sadat's way of placating
the armed forces after he had named Mamdouh Salem,
a former police officer, as prime minister.
can efforts to establish a firm position in the Middle
East.
"Sadat has been the linch-pin of our policy," said a
State Department official. This is a very serious blow."
While Sadat's fate was still in doubt, former Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger said of him, "If there is an
indispensable man in the diplomatic process, it is
Sadat."
Later Kissinger said: "The Camp David process was
based on fundamental realities. President Sadat recog
nized these realities, but he did not invent them, and
therefore these realities still exist for us to build on. I
think it would be a terrible mistake for America now to
give way to despair, to think that we cannot go' for
ward."
Egyptian Ambassador Ashraf Ghorbal said his coun
try will continue to pursue peace in the Middle East and
close ties with the United States.
"Cairo has confirmed that it continues its policies as
charted by President Sadat and overwhelmingly sup
ported by the Egyptian people," Ghorbal said.
"The peace process under Camp David will remain
Reactions range
By The Associated Press .
The assassination of Egyptian Presi
dent Anwar Sadat brought grief to his
admirers and joy to his enemies emo
tions divided along the same Middle
Eastern battle lines he breached with his
peace initiative four years ago.
Palestinian and leftist Lebanese mili
tias in Beirut, devout foes of Sadat and
his peace treaty with Israel, rejoiced at
the news the Egyptian leader had been
killed yesterday by a group of uniformed
men at a Cairo military parade.
Syrians danced with joy in the streets
of Damascus, Libyan radio exulted, and
the Palestine Liberation Organization
said it would "shake the hand of he who
pulled the trigger."
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Be
gin, who shared a Nobel Peace Prize with
Sadat'in 1978, said he had lost "not only a
partner in the peace process, but also a
friend."
Begin, speaking on the radio in hushed
tones to his stunned nation, said, "We
hope the peace process, despite the cruel
act of his enemies, will continue as we
know President Sadat would have wished
with all his heart." Sadat was "mur
dered by the enemies of peace," Begin
said.
Israel's former defense minister, Ezer
Weizman, said of Sadat: "He was the
first to break open the road to peace and
has fallen victim to peace."
President Reagan, speaking in Wash
ington, said, "America has lost a close
friend, the world has lost a great states
man, and mankind has lost a champion
of peace."
"In a world filled with hatred, he was a
man of hope," Reagan said. "The people
of the United States join with the people
of Egypt and all those who long for a
better world in mourning the death of
Anwar Sadat."
U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Alfred Ath
erton, who was in the reviewing stand
with Sadat but was not hurt, called the
assassination "a great tragedy for me
and the world."
At the United Nations, officials of mod
erate Arab states voiced new concern
about Middle-East stability following the
death of the man regarded as the main
force for moderation in the troubled
area.
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from grief to joy
Kittani of Iraq asked delegates to stand
for one minute of silence in memory of
Sadat. But the Iraqi delegation was ab
sent from the hall as were Iran, Lebanon,
Algeria, the United Arab Emirates, Mau
ritania, and the observers of the PLO, the
Arab League and the Islamic Confer
ence.
In Oman, Sultan Qaboos condemned
the assassination and declared a three
day mourning period throughdut the Per
sian Gulf sultanate. An Omani battalion
commander was among those killed in
the reviewing stand.
Initial Communist reaction contained
no expression of regret. Radio commen
taries and Moscow and Prague sug
gested Sadat paid the ultimate price for
his friendship with Israel and the United
States. Egypt has been America's main
ally in the Arab world.
In Libya, whose hardline leader Col.
Moammar Khadafy never forgave Sadat
for making the 1978 Camp David peace
agreement with Israel, Tripoli radio ex
ulted: "Every tyrant has an end."
French President Francois Mitterrand
said: "The world has lost one of the best
among us."
In telegraMs to Egyptian Vice Presi
dent Hosni Mubarak and Sadat's widow,
Mitterrand decribed Sadat as a "man
who knew how, with courage and excep
tional intelligence, to affect destiny."
Similar sentiments poured out from
other European capitals.
In London, a Foreign Office spokes
man said: "History will mark his great
achievements . . . The world is a more
dangerous place without him."
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II sent a
personal condolence message on the
death of a longtime friend, as did Prince
Charles and Princess Diana who en
tertained Sadat when their honeymoon
cruise last August took them to Egypt.
Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky,
leader of of the only Western nation to
recognize the PLO formally, said t`Sadat
was one of the great personalities of this
century."
PLO security chief Salah Khalaf said,
"Today Sadat, tomorrow Numeiry and
all the remaining agents afterwards."
President Jaafar Numeiry of Sudan was
Sadat's closest ally in the Arab world.
dieted there would be a delay in floor consider
ation.
Any postponement would require White House
agreement to interrupt the timetable leading to
the Nov. 1 deadline. Before Sadat's death, the
White House had written off chances for a favor
able vote in the House and acknowledged that it
faced an uphill battle in the Senate.
Summing up the changed circumstances,
Cranston said,"On the one hand, it will be argued
that if we've lost a friend in Egypt we must not
jeopardize our relationship with another country
in the Mideast, Saudi Arabia . . . On the other
hand, with the unstable environment in the Mid
dle East it will be argued that providing those
planes with their secret equipment to the Saudis
they will fall into the wrong hands. That argument
is underscored" by the shooting.
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acting president of Egypt
the . . . policy of the country. A close relationship with
the United States will remain a cornerstone of Egyptian
policy."
As the Egyptian ambassador faced reporters, the
embassy flag was lowered to half-mast.
Israeili ambassador Ephraim Evron said his govern
ment was "very much relieved" to hear that the
surviving Egyptian leadership feels bound by the peace
treaty. •
He said of Mubarek: "He was a party to the whole
negotiations. He was at President Sadat's side through
out this period. He was obviously was in agreement with
what Sadat did." He told ABC News, "I don't think
there's any doubt he will follow in President Sadat's
footsteps."
Though Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem
Begin signed the historic Camp David peace accord in
1978, the final phase of the process, giving autonomy to
the 1.2 million Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West
Bank and Gaza Strip, has remained elusive. Sadat and
Begin only recently agreed on new negotiations, which
opened Sept. 23 in Cairo.
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WASHINGTON (AP) The House refused a move
by Republican leaders yesterday for deep cuts in an
$87.3-billion appropriations bill that the Reagan ad
ministration deemed hundreds of millions over bud
get.
But Republicans hailed the apparent defeat as a
strong sign that they could sustain a presidential veto
of "budget-busting" bills.
The action was, in effect, the first test of support for
President Reagan's new round of spending cuts.
The House agreed on a 383-30 vote to cut $79 million
from the measure, but a Republican move to send the
entire package back to a committee drawing board in
light of a potential presidential veto failed 249-168.
The House then passed the measure on a voice vote,
instead of the usual recorded vote on such matters.
After the vote, House Republican Whip Trent Lott
of Mississippi said GOP leaders did not seek a
recorded vote on final passage of the bill in light of
the tally on the move to send the measure back to the
committee.
"Our judgement call was that this was out best
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One-third plus one vote is required to sustain a
presidential veto.
"We have the votes, with room to spare, to sustain
a veto," Lott said. .
Reagan's House allies argued that the appropria
tions bill for the department's of Labor, Education
and Health and Human Services must be trimmed.
"This is the best of bills and the worst of bills," said
Republican Leader Robert H. Michel of Illinois. "On
another day and another time" it would have re
ceived nearly unanimous support, he said.
But the bill "is excessive and the president surely
will veto it," Michel said in a speech on the House
floor.
Reagan vowed last week to veto any "budget
busting" bills Congress sends him.
"This bill is the safety net for the truly needy," said
Rep. Ralph Regula, R-Ohio, a member of the House
Budget Committee who offered the motion to send the
bill back to committee. But "in the final analysis, it's
$763 million over the budget resolution" Congress
enacted in May. •
However, the Republican unity that had been so
strong on previous budget votes this year cracked
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Thirty-nine Republicans, mostly moderates from
the Northeast and Midwest, voted against the motion
to send the bill back to committee.
Rep. William H. Natcher, D-Ky., chairman of the
Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and"
Human Services, offered the amendment backed
by the Democratic leadership to reduce the bill by
$74 million and technically bring' it within the
guidelines set by a preliminary budget resolution
enacted by Congress in May.
Rep. Silvio 0. Conte of Massachusetts, the ranking
Republican on the subcommittee broke with the GOP
leadership and voted against sending the measure
back to committee.
He called the measure "America's investment in
humanity."
"We cannot bring out a better bill," he said
Michel, however, argued that even with that action
the appropriation measure, which provides much of
the .money for the three Cabinet departments and
related agencies, would exceed Reagan's March
budget proposals, which the administration is using
for its yardstick.
He said the $74 million was only "a token" reduc
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