Sadat: the death of a stooge
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Write to 150 London SE17 RES No. 56 OCTOBER 8, 20p * ALL VISITO by Andrew Hornung ANWAR SADAT has be gunned down. Who kill the President of Egypt we not know at prese Certainly there were enou groups who had good reas to want him dead.
The Arab nationalists Egypt and the other states the Arab world saw Sadat the man who betrayed Palestinian people when signed a peace treaty w Israel. Moslem fundam talists hate him for that a in addition for his attacks them within Egypt.
The latest of these cal last month when Sac arrested Moslem fundam talists, leaders of the Cop Christian church political oppositionists.
Imprisonment
1 The political opposit within Egypt never many channels throu whic express their ide the recent cra down it became virtu: impossible to criticise regime's central poli without risking immedi imprisonment.
For the working class : the mass or the urban rural poor, life had b growing steadily worse si Sadat started asset-stripp Egypt for the benefit of imperialism and the oil Arab states.
His infitah "open do policy - his critics said should be translated "d mat" - led to the pene tion of foreign capital wi destroyed Egypt's ma of political and econo independence.
After Egypt's break v the Soviet Union follow the 1973 October Sadat's face beamed up a from the newspapers, saw in him the model what an Arab leader sho be reactionary, ser towards the west prepared to be the stoog imperialism.
After his 1977 trip Jerusalem he became darling of the imperi press.
Hollowness
Last month's repres forced a fever of criti from western leaders did not criticise his sup!
sion of the big work rising of 1977 as it expi the hollowness of their c that he was a democrat.
No revolutionary soci hed a tear at the d or Sadat. But who will g Whether it leads to progressive development Egypt depends on whe the working class t proves capable of taking initiative and not leaving next step to the military fundamentalist right or luke-warm nationalist op ition.
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