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IIThe Soviet Union is trying to bring
us to our knees. But 1 wi/1 get on my
knees before no one but Al/ah.
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- Anwar Sadat
to the Egyptian parliament,
March 14, 1976
SADAT
JOLTS
THE
KREMLIN!
by Garner Ted Armstrong
Egyptian President Anwar Sa–
dat boldly scrapped his na–
tion
's
friendship treaty with
the Soviet Union. But wi/1 he
get the aid he needs from the
United States? Here
is a
first–
hand report by the Editor of
The Plain Truth ,
based on an
exclusive interview with the
president of Egypt.
1
n the wakc or two Sinai dis–
cngagcmen t agreements with
Israel. the feeling in Cairo is that
war with
r
rae! is no longer inevi–
table and that a lasting Mideast
pcacc may now be within grasp.
A meeting with Egyptian Presi–
dent Anwar Sadat leaves little
doubt that this is
hi~
- and his
pcoplc's - ardent hope.
"1 think this
b
the flrsl time in the
27 years since the bcginning of the
Arab- lsraeli conflict that there is a
poss ibility of real peace in the arca,"
thc 57-year-old president declared
during our hour-long conversation
at thc Presidential Palace in Cairo
on March 6.
Pcacc is an integra l pa n of Sa–
dat's maste r plan for Egypt"s na–
tional reconstruction. Drai ned by
ycars of costly war, the impover–
ished nation is seeking Lo rebuild
it~
war-shattered economy and provide
a bettcr lifc for its 37 million poor.
Renewed tighting would only erve
to further devastatc thc cconomy.
But in the unpredictablc Middle
[a!)t, no nation can afford to foreg.o
guns for butter. Egypt - despi tc her
de~ire
for peace - rcali zel> shc can–
no! concentrate on rebuilding her
devastated economy at the expense
The
PLAIN TRUTH
June
1976