CBS Evening News - 1981-10-09
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[0:00] Well, tonight at 6:00.
[0:02] >> [music]
[0:04] >> From around the world and from CBS News
[0:07] in Washington, this is the CBS Evening
[0:10] News with Dan Rather.
[0:12] Good evening. Pragmatic politics clouded
[0:14] by the threat of renewed religious
[0:16] strife mixed with the emotion of
[0:18] mourning today as Egypt prepared to bury
[0:20] its leader Anwar Sadat. His successor as
[0:22] Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak spent a
[0:25] busy day giving assurances in separate
[0:27] meetings with Israeli Prime Minister
[0:28] Begin and Secretary of State Haig that
[0:31] Egypt's policies will not waver. But to
[0:34] the south of Cairo in Asyut, there was
[0:36] mounting pressure from Muslim
[0:37] fundamentalists trying to force changes
[0:39] in a post-Sadat Egypt. We have three
[0:41] reports beginning with Tom Fenton in
[0:43] Cairo.
[0:46] From the moment he stepped onto Egyptian
[0:48] soil, Begin was surrounded by a phalanx
[0:51] of Egyptian and Israeli bodyguards that
[0:53] hid him from view most of the time.
[0:56] Begin expressed his commitment to
[0:58] continue on the path of peace with
[0:59] Egypt.
[1:01] We signed the peace treaty. We signed
[1:03] the Camp David agreement.
[1:05] Agreements are being signed in order to
[1:08] be kept.
[1:09] This is the sacred principle in which we
[1:12] believe.
[1:13] He went immediately to see Vice
[1:15] President Mubarak. The meeting, which
[1:17] lasted almost an hour, was described as
[1:19] emotional. The Egyptian leader expressed
[1:21] his own commitment to peace with Israel
[1:23] and claimed that 99% of the Egyptian
[1:25] people were behind him. From Begin's
[1:27] point of view, it was a satisfactory
[1:30] meeting, even though there was slight
[1:31] disappointment that Mubarak did not
[1:33] indicate an i