Miami Hurricane, October 09, 1981

              Students Reflect Upon Sadat's Death
in EDITORIALS pages 4 and 5
4Relieved/ Says One Arab Student
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Students
React To Sadat Assassination
The UM Reserve Officer Training Corps participated in the annual Water Survival Training program on Saturday, Sept. 26 near the Florida Power and Light Turkey Point plant. Pictured is a UM ROTC cadet who took part in a simulated parachute drop high over the water.
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By GEORGE HAJ
News Writer
As the word of the attack on Egyptian President Anwar Sadat spread Tuesday, some University of Miami students gathered to watch as the tragic news slowly crept out of Egypt. As students passed through the Student Union, many stopped to see what had developed.
Most students seemed apathetic and gave little attention to the events occurring in Egypt. Their apathy was probably due to the lack of information coming from the country and to the mere speculation of television correspondents.
For those who did watch, though, confirmation that Sadat had died was announced at 2:20. Students reacted with mixed views about the assassination, the reasons behind it, and Sadat himself.
Most students were surprised, many were angry, and some even rejoiced at this third attack on a world leader in 10 months.
While most American students seemed shocked and angered at the assassination, many of the Arab students on campus had a different view.
They considered Sadat to be "a menace to the Arab world,” as one student said. Others said he was a traitor to the Arab cause and took the news of his assasination with great pleasure. Out of a number of Arab students interviewed, few had anything good to say about Anwar Sadat.
In many cases, they echoed the views of most of the Arab world who — with the exception of Sudan very poor relations with having disowned and condemned Sadat after his peace initiative to Israel in 1977.
Zainal Alkhaja, a student from the United Arab Emirates, said he “was kind of relieved” at the death of Sadat.
“Although killing Sadat does not solve the problems (of Egypt’s peace treaty with Israeli, he was a big traitor to the Arab people,"said Alkhaja.
Kuwaiti student Khaled Alredaini said: “Sadat tried to make a separate peace with Israel, and for that
he was killed "
Alhaja said the assassination was expected because of Sadat's recent jailing of fundamentalist moslems, which he said was not the way to solve Egypt's political problems.
“I don’t think moslems killed him,” he said, but “in the end, the reason for his assassination was the same."
American students had a different reaction. Senior John Compten said, "Sadat was a great leader whose only goal was peace. It is tragic that such a great man would be cut down in the prime of his life. The Middle East will never be the same."
Berry Eisensmith, a philosophy major said: "Sadat was a man of hope, a great humanitarian
“I was totally shocked when I first heard of the assassination, yet the event is believable. With all the recent attempted assassinations, it doesn’t amaze me any more."
His view was echoed by other students who are getting used to violence in society. As Eisensmith put it, “It doesn't phase me anymore. It is becoming a normal, everyday oc-curance. I’m getting used to it . . .”
Speculation about the reasons lor the assassination were as varied as the views about Sadat. Alkhaja felt that it was not moslems who assassinated Sadat, it was people angry at his policies of jailing fanatical moslems. "It was not the way to solve Egypt's problems,"he said.
Eisensmith said he felt that it was an attempted coup orchestrated by Vice President Hosni Mubarak to seize power. He said the fact Mubarek was uninjured in the attack, even though he was seated next to Sadat, and the fact that he was a military leader while five of his men took part in the assassination lends credence to that theory.
Few students share that theory, attributing the assassination to oniy a few fundamentalist religious fanatics in the military. They see hope in Mubarak s leadership and few see a real change in Egyptian policy in the near future.
Americans see that as an omen for continued peace. Arab students see it as a continued threat to their countries and the Arab cause
By JOHN OUDENS
Associate Sews Editor
First of two parts
Sean Newton doesn't look much like a Vietnam
War veteran.	...
He still has two arms and two legs, and they all work. When he walks, he carries his medium-sized body quickly but calmly to wherever he s going. When he sits, his hands rarely find their way to his short brown beard He's not nervous.
His blue eyes are awake and alert — but not anxious. They portray nothing but intelligence and sanity.
And if Newton, 35, doesn't look like what one might expect in a Vietnam veteran, he certainly doesn live like one. He has money, plenty of it. There s proof of that in his cars, his expensive stereo equipment and his $91,000 Fort Lauderdale home, which he plans to improve and sell for around $350,000.
He’s a junior majoring in archaeology at UM. After finishing here, he plans to take courses in marine archaeology at Texas A&M; then he'll be ready to travel the world as an explorer and diver.
No, he doesn’t look or live like a veteran u talks like one.	,	.	„ _av_
“War is a great equalizer, a great 'eveier. he says now, 12 years after flying home from Southeast A • "Everyone is cold, everyone is wet, everyone is miser ble, everyone is tired. People find out what th y
made of."
Newton was there for three and a half years. He saw a lot of blood, death and destruction Today he discusses his experiences almost as easily as he does music and business ventures.
Sean Newton is a survivor.
He was born in Manhattan in 1946, though his family was based in California. His father, lead singer with ttie Gene Krupa Orchestra, a popular group of the Big Band era, happened to be playing an extended engagement in New York at the time of his son’s birth.
Newton grew up in Compton, Calif., a Los Angeles neighborhood “right next to Watts." His schools contained mostly blacks and Chicanos — "whites were the minorities." He belonged to street gangs: “you had to to survive,” he says.
In the summer of 1964, Newton ran into trouble with the California Youth Authority. After being arrested with a friend m Nevada — police had caught the two driving a California car his friend had stolen — a CYA judge told Newton to join the Marines or face one to three years in prison.
“I took the judge’s suggestion and enlisted." he says, chuckling
Newton wasn’t very aware of the problem growing in Southeast Asia at the time of his enlistment.
“I entered boot camp in August 1964," he says, "and shortly after that the Gulf of Tonkin incident occurred." North Vietnamese torpedo boats had attacked
See page 2/VET
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By GEORGE HAJ
News Writer
While the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has caused many commentators and analysts to forecast doom for the future of peace and the stability of Egypt in the volatile region of the world known as the Middle East, some remain optimistic.
One who is optimistic about Egypt is Bernard Schechterman, professor of politics and public affairs at the University of Miami.
Schechterman said, in the after-math of the assassination, as accolades and praise are being heaped on Sadat, that we must put President Sadat in the proper perspective.
"Americans tend to romanticize Sadat,” he said. Sadat’s government, despite all the trappings of a democracy, was in effect a military dictatorship with Sadat at the helm
“His strength,” Schechterman said, “was as the leader among the collective military leadership in Egypt.
“We must remember — and I think it should be understood — that while Sadat was a good leader, he can not be compared with a man like |his predecessorl Gamal Abdel Nasser. Nasser was a truly charismatic leader who really had a good relationship with the people of Egypt.”
Whie all nations are saddened by the loss of Anwar Sadat, the question now arises: Who were the as-sasins?
According to Schechterman, three groups tould have been responsible for the assassination of President Sadat
First, it could have been a group sponsered by President Moammar Khadafy of Libya. Terrorists from Libya with plans to kill Sadat were captured by Egyptian forces several times in recent weeks.
The second group who could have committed the crime were the deposed and exiled military leaders from Egypt. Mere vengence could have been their primary goal, as Sadat removed them from power recently. They may have performed this act as a form of retaliation.
This, said Schechterman, is the most probable cause of the assassination by the followers and subordinates of the exiled military men.
The third possibility — a remote one — "is that the moslem fundamentalists, many of whose leaders Sadat had jailed in recent months, committed the crime.” They may have been planning a coup or revolution to be carried out in the same manner as in Iran.
Schechterman discounts this possibility, though.
“As for fundamentalist moslems being the cause,” he says, “you have to remember that Egypt is the oldest of the secularized nations in the Middle East. Their identity is no longer linked in religious terms of being a moslem."
Rather, Sadat had pushed for his people to consider themselves first as Egyptians, and then as Arabs or Moslems.
As for the relationship between Egypt and Israel and the continuation of the peace process that began with President Sadat’s visit to Jerusalem in 1977, Schechterman feels that the probable new president, Hosni Mubarak, will continue with Sadat's policies.
Israel is taking a cautious approach towards the new government of Egypt, and leaders are questioning whether or not to give back the Sinai Desert to Egypt as scheduled in April of next year.
As Schechterman sees it, Israel really has two options in this situation.
"The first is to simply review and wait and see whether Mubarak can actually stabilize his power structure.
"The second is to postpone the transfer until such a time as Israel considers the Egyptian government to be be stabilized."
Schechterman has suggested that Israel should use the issue of disengagement from the Sinai as a drawing card to help insure the stability of the Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak.
He remains optimistic that Mubarak can succeed and continue to lead in the manner of Sadat as long as the military is behind him. However, he warned, if the military should divide among the Egyptian leaders, there could be chaos in Egypt
“But he should be able to keep stability in Egypt,” says Schechterman, and his relationship with the
west should consider to be strong "mainly because Egypt is very strongly western-oriented — and the alternative is virtual Soviet occupation."