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photographed together.
Then, the American congressmen dismissed, the president
entered. The TV lights were flashed on.
It's a coincidence that the last time I met President Sadat,
in Alexandria, he also was then about to address the nation on
television. It was at a university in Alexandria. At that time,
Mr. Rader and I were waiting in a reception room off the entrance
lobby when the president entered. He had then come in a motorcade
with streets lined with people trying to get a glimpse of their
president. At that time, Mr. Sadat entered with his wife, followed
by his cabinet and other top government officials. The president
waited at the rear of the room, while his cabinet and officials
lined up on each side facing the middle. Down the middle was
a long red carpet. I walked down the red carpet to be formally
introduced by Dr. Hatem to the president and the first lady,
Mr. Rader with or following me. That had been my first meeting
with President Sadat, although we were already well acquainted
with his close adviser Dr. Hatem.
But in this present meeting, Mr. Sadat and I sat together
in the corner of the room where seats had been arranged for
telecasting. Both our own TV cameramen and the government TV
cameramen were shooting us, until the meeting was under way, and then
they left, and we were able to continue without the blazing TV
lights.
Mr. Sadat showed me the architect's rendering of his proposed
World Peace Center, a $70 million project to be built at the
foot of Mt. Sinai, as a symbol of peace between nations and
religions. It is a project involving quite a story--too much
to include in this letter. He invited our participation.
I have written a complete article giving the details of
this for QUEST/81 magazine, which will appear about March 20th.
I am planning to write articles for QUEST/81 frequently from
now on, and it occurs to me that some of our members and co-workers
might like to subscribe to QUEST and read these articles, as
well as the many articles it contains. That magazine has improved
since its founding, and is generally recognized as the leading
or one of the leading quality secular magazines in the U.S.
A subscription could be made through our office.
Also I will write an altogether different article about
the meeting with President Sadat and the peace center at Mt.
Sinai, in The PLAIN TRUTH.
There are other things I wanted to say, but this letter
is getting overlong, and I will reserve other things until next
time or in The PLAIN TRUTH.
We have won a victory--a very significant battle in a long
WAR in which Satan the devil is fighting this Work of God. The
attorney general of California has dropped his unconstitutional
lawsuit and trumped-up charges against us. But Satan is not
yet chained and removed. He still sits angrily and vengefully