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"l'm very proud of being just a nor–
mal villager who grew up in a village
with a population of not more than
2,000.... My father was in Sudan
with the Egyptian army. The head of
the family in our village was my
grandmother. She was illiterate.
She never read or wrote, but still
she knows the traditions of the vil–
lage.
" And in our village we are very
proud of our traditions, of our faith.
We live a humble, quiet life... . Af–
ter 1 left the vil lage and carne to
Cairo here, be li eve me 1 was
shocked....
"lf 1have attained any success or
any principies or any courage, it is
due to the first principies 1 learned
in the village."
-
Anwar el Sadat
" The Socialist Union will readjust it–
self. ... We shall have opposition,
and we shal l have a true democratic
system built on institutions . 1prom–
ise 1shall fulfill this befare the end
of my term...." (These statements
carne from interviews that took
place in 1976, prior to Presiden!
Sadat's September reelection to a
new six-year term in office.)
"l'm going this year, for the first
time in the history of revolutions, to
deliver to the representativas of the
people and the people of Egypt, to
deliver them everything.... 1 was
one of those who started it 25 years
befare.... 1mean delivering the full
responsibil ity to the people.' ·
-
Anwar el Sadat
" In 1950 we were around 20 mil–
lían, 1960 around 27, 28 (million].
Now we are 37 million. We do not
like it. We do no! want lo have big
families. . . . lf we go on like this,
this means that in the year 2000 ,
we'll be around 85 million - which
THE NOON-TIME
crowd pushing its
way through Cairo's Tahrir Square ii–
Justrates one of the city's toughest
challenges: how to properly teed,
house, and employ its seven to nine
mil/ion people.
Though they live in poverty by
Western standards. the Delta tarming
people (center) and the open-air
shopkeepers (bottom) ot Caíro are as
proud of their children as are parents
elsewhere.
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