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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1981
National
( Haig comments on assassination
Sadat’s death hurts US
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The assas
sination of Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat Tuesday cost the
United States its closest Arab al
ly, threatened the Camp David
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specter of a new Middle East war.
Secretary of State Alexander
Haig pledged continued U.S.
support during what could be a
period of political turmoil and
urged continuation of Sadat’s
policies.
“During this difficult transition
period the United States will
stand firmly by Egypt. We are
confident that the Egyptian peo
ple and the constitutional process
will prevail, but this terrible
event must not disrupt the prom
ise of Anwar Sadat’s historic
achievements,” Haig said late
Tuesday after a meeting with
President Reagan and a group of
senators.
Middle East experts said
Sadat’s immediate successor,
Vice President Hosni Mobarak,
will be placed under increasing
pressure from Arab hardliners to
withdraw from the U.S.-
sponsored direct negotiations
with Israel.
At the same time they said
there is likely to be a move by
some Israeli politicians to halt
their withdrawal from the Sinai at
least until the situation becomes
clearer.
This will force the Reagan ad
ministration which has not yet
forged a comprehensive Middle
East policy to make a series of
decisions that could prove crucial
for the area.
The experts said the United
States will have to trend a narrow
Mobarak and not trying to shelter
him so much that he can be called
an American puppet.
“If there is a Libyan connection
with the shooting there will be an
Egyptian-Libyan war,” William
Quandt, a former National Secur
ity Council staff member now
with the Brookings Institution,
told United Press International.
“In that case” he said “we, the
United States, will be called on to
make some decisions —- and very
suddenly.”
Dr. Yahya Sadowski, a Middle
East expert at the Johns Hopkins
School of Advanced International
Studies, said one of the problems
is the administration’s lack of a
coherent Middle East policy.
So far, he said, all the adminis
tration has come up with is a
series of ideas such as its pro
posed anti-Soviet “strategic con
sensus” that do not deal with the
core issues of the region.
The uncertainties arising from
the assassination fueled congres
sional opposition to the adminis
tration’s proposed sale of sophis
ticated AWACS radar to Saudi
Arabia, thus threatening to com
plicate relations with another key
Arab ally.
Sadat was a strong backer of the
sale even though he complained
that the Saudis “have been abus
ing me.”
Sadowski predicted that at the
very least there now will be some
movement by the Arab states —
particularly in the Persian Gulf—
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mainstream which means moving
away from the Camp David
process that produced the Egyp-
tian-Israeli peace treaty.
In that case the experts agreed
the United States will have to be
able to demonstrate that con
tinued Egyptian participation in
the talks with Israel will produce
something tangible.
Given the makeup of the cur
rent Israeli government that may
be difficult to do.
Israeli ambassador Ephraim
Evron said in an interview on
ABC-TV that Mobarak was in
volved in the whole Camp David
process. “He is obviously in full
agreement with what President
Sadat has done. The great majori
ty of the Egyptian people support
the peace treaty.”
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