Sadat's assassins under interrogation
By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS
Associated Press Writer
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) President
Anwar Sadat'e assassins were "led by a
Moslem fanatic" and are now being
interrogated, Vice President Hosni
Mubarak said yesterday.
"There is a long story behind all this,
but I prefer to wait till the interrogation
is completed," Mubarak told reporters
at an impromptu news conference,
after accepting the ruling party's
nomination to succeed Sadat. The
government scheduled a referendum
next week in which Mubarak will be the
only candidate.
Egypt's defense minister was quoted
as saying two of Sadat's four assassins
were civilians who masqueraded as
soldiers . to sneak into the military
parade that ended in a bloodbath.
Mubarak declined comment on the
report, but said the assassination was
"a criminal act undertaken by
individuals and was by no means a coup
attempt." Mubarak was wearing a
bandage around his left wrist.
indicating he was wounded in the
attack.
He told reporters that he and Sadat
were sitting side-by-side on the
reviewing stand Tuesday, watching
planes fly, by overhead. •
"I sensed the president stand. I stood
too and to my utter horror and disbelief,
I saw a man throw a grenade at the
stand, and then gunfife broke out," he
said.
"I was hurled to the ground and so
was the president but I could not
believe what my eyes had seen. The
president was taken away in a
helicopter."
The vice president reiterated his
commitment to Sadat's policies.and
said the year-long emergency declared
immediately after Sadat's death was
being enforced "to protect the nation
from any saboteurs."
Defense Minister Abdel Halim Abu
Ghazala said one of the assassins was
an officer, one was a retired reserve
officer and the other two were civilians
(pretending to be soldiers, the
fiewspaper Al Akhbar reported in
today's editions.
Abu Ghazala did not elaborate in the
newspaper account on how the two
civilians, reported to be veterans of
Egypt's mandatory military service,
got into the military ranks on parade.
Another daily, the semi-official Al
Ahram, quoted Gen. Mahmoud el-
Masry, commander of the Republican
No sale of fall contracts
State senate approves
$ 20 million for buildings
By RON WATERS
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
A bill that would provide about $2O
million for the University was
passed in the state Senate
yesterday, but must be returned to
the House for final approval, a
University lobbyist said.
The bill includes an amendment
which passed in the Senate
Appropriations Committee on
Monday that would provide $3.9
million to the University's Delaware
County campus for construction of a
student activities center, Frank
Forni said.
The building would be an
improvement long needed because
of the size of the campus, campus
inside
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Intervals of clouds and sunshine, breezy and cool today. A few sprinkles are
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cold tonight with low temperatures around 38 degrees. Partly sunny and cool
tomorrow with high temperatures close to 60 degrees.
the
daily
Guards, as saying three "traitors" left
the truck when it reached the reviewing
stand.
Thinking the men were approaching
the stand to salute him, Sadat stood to
return the salute, el-Masry was quoted
as saying.. While Sadat was standing,
the fourth man, still in the truck,
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A man in an Egyptian army uniform fires a Kalashnikov submachine gun at pointblank range into the presidential
reviewing stand where Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and at least five others were killed. The army truck in which
the assassins arrived (background) was Soviet-made.
director John Vairo said
For University Park, an
amendment that was approved last
month authorizes $6.6 million for
laboratory and program renovations
to the mineral science and mineral
industries buildings.
A third amendment yet to be
approved by the House would
provide $3.5 million to the
University's Mont Alto campus for a
new multi-purpose physical
education building.
The $lO2-million bill would
authorize the Commonwealth to
float general obligation bonds for
various construction projects and
could face a vote as early as next
week, Forni estimated.
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opened fire with an automatic rifle,
hitting the president with his first shots,
the guard commander was quoted as
saying.
In an emergency session yesterday,
Parliament endorsed overwhelmingly
the nomination that Egypt's ruling
party gave Mubarak within hours of
Disaster demonstration
By SHARON TAYLOR
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The Office of Housing and Food Service
Operations will not allow students to sell
dormitory contracts Fall Term 1982, said the
assistant vice president for housing and food
services.
William H. McKinnon said Housing will not
permit students to exchange their contracts
because many have misinterpreted the initial
purpose of the policy.
"Students have interpreted it to mean that
if a student does not get a contract, he can
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Sadat's assassination Tuesday.. The
vice president accepted the nomination
during a televised meeting with a
parliamentary delegation.
' The Parliament's action meant
Mubarak's name will be the only one on
the ballot Oct. 13. The date falls within
Egypt's 60-day constitutional limit.
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At a news conference in Washington
Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig
Jr. said there was no evidence of
external involvement in the
assassination.
But Haig served notice to Libya and
other radical Arab states opposed to
Sadat's peace treaty with Israel that
the United States "would view with
great concern" any attempt to seize
upon the assassination to fan instability
in the Mideast.
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem
Begin will attend the funeral, and in a
letter to Mubarak said, "We are
confident that the legacy of peace of
President Sadat will live on . . . This is
a sacred trust we have to fulfill."
Sadat's body was being held at Maadi
military hospital, and officials said
there were no plans for it to lie in state.
They said it' ould be taken to a mosque
near the parade ground in the section of
Cairo known as Nasr City and interred
in a mausoleum near the reviewing
stand on which Sadat was killed.
Sadat's family remained in seclusion
with the slain president's only son. 25-
year-old Gamal, rushing home from a
vacation in Florida.
In Parliament, all :330 votes counted
in the special session endorsed
Reagan will not go to funeral
By TERENCE HUNT
Associated Press Writer
MEE
WASHINGTON (AP) President
Reagan will not attend the funeral of
slain Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat
because he fears for his own safety.
but will send a delegation including
all three living former American
presidents, a spokesman said
yesterday.
Presidents Richard M. Nixon,
Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter
all agreed to go. They will be
accompanied by Secretary of State
Alexander M: Haig Jr., Defense
Secretary Caspar Weinberger and
former Secretary of State Henry A
Kissinger. , _ .
Acting on the unanimous advice of ,
U.S. security agencies, Reagan
decided to remain home "with great
regret," communications director
David Gergen said. Vice President
George Bush also will stay in
Washington because of the same
security precautions applying to
Reagan, Gergen said.
Reagan later issued a
proclamation ordering flags to be
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`buy' it from someone who wants out of the
dorms," he said.
"It's become a way to get into the residence
halls, instead of a way to get out," he said.
Stan Latta, assistant director of the Office
of Residential Life Programs, said, "Many
students from off campus are getting the
contracts, when the original spirit of the
policy was to allow the student who wanted to
leave the residence halls for personal reasons
a chance to get out."
When a student sells his dormitory contract
to another student, the student who wishes to
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Mubarak. Another 55 members of
Parliament abstained, four were
absent and three votes were
disqualified, officials said
A two-thirds majority of the 392
members of parliament, or 261 votes,
was needed to endorse Mubarak as
Parliament's nominee. Ile is expected
to be sworn in Oct. 15. Mubarak was
chosen by Sadat in 1975 to he his vice
president and eventual successor.
Accepting the nomination. Mubarak
told the delegation. "Al this critical
moment Which I never wished to
witness. I do not hesitate to accept the
Parliament confidence ... I accept the
nomination with pleasure in order to
keep the wheel going." Mubarak said.
Ile pldged anew that he would
continue the policies of "our teacher
and our leader" Sadat.
Earlier in the day. interim president
Sufi Abu Taleb appointed 11lubarak
prime minister. adding to his posts of
vice president and supreme
commander of the Egyptian armed
forces.
Egypt's defense minister was sitting
next to Sadat on the reviewing stand
when soldiers in a military parade
commemorating the 1973 war with
Israel opened fire on the president
flown at half-staff at U.S.
installations at home and abroad
until Sadat's burial. "America has
lost a close friend. The world has lost
a great statesman and mankind has
lost a champion of peace," the
president said.
The flog flying over the White
House also was lowered in a rare
salute to a foreigner. In the past, the
only non-Americans so honored upon
their death were British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill in 1965
and United Nations Secretary
General Dag Ilammarskjold in 1961,
according to press aide Robin Gray.
Reagan attended a memorial
-service for Sadat at the National
Cathedral. where Bishop John T.
Walker said, "The sadness of the
moment covers all of us." •
Officials would not publicly
discuss the grounds for wanting
Reagan to stay at home, but
indicated they were troubled by the
uncertain political situation in
Egypt, where Sadat was gunned
down by members of his own army
Tuesday.
move into the residence halls must sign the
contract, relieving the former holder of all
financial responsibility, McKinnon said.
The student purchasing the contract is
placed in temporary housing, said William
Mulberger, director of the Assignment Office
for Campus Residences.
When a student buys a contract, Mulberger
said, "We have another student coming into
the lounge. If there isn't room (in the other
lounges), we may have to set up a whole new
lounge (to house these students)."
Please see CONTRACTS, Page 16