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64

FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1989

t is late afternoon during
Ramadan, the Moslem
month of fasting, and
Jehan Sadat has not had a
bite to eat or even a drop of
water since sunrise. She is
almost finished coping with
two hours that might tax so-
meone with a full stomach or
a moist palate — an hour-long
lecture to faculty and stu-
dents at the University of
Maryland, followed by an in-
terview with a journalist —
and neither her energy nor
her graciousness are flagging.
Perhaps Mrs. Sadat's
energy comes from her sense
of mission: She sees herself as
the guardian of the memory
of her husband, Anwar Sa-
dat,the man who died eight
years ago in a fusillade of
bullets after making peace
between his nation and its
Israeli neighbor to the east.
Perhaps her stamina comes
from her sense of fate, from
some force that has set her on
this course. Asked whether
she has ever feared for her
own life, she said immediate-
ly, "No, otherwise it would be
better to stay at home with-
out doing anything in life. I
believe in fate, as my husband
did."
Or perhaps her energy
comes from the religious ex-
perience of Ramadan,the
ninth month of the Moslem
calendar that marks the first
revelation of the Koran. But
this last bit of speculation has
little credence, since Mrs.
Sadat has a well-deserved
reputation for being gracious,
regardless of the month in the
Moslem calendar.
Probably what most propels
Jehan Sadat is her vision, a
vision of a Middle East quiet
and peaceful. This vision, of
course, she shared with her
husband. But since his death,
she is its guardian, the quiet
proselytizer of its merits.
That a peacemaker should
die by violence seems one of
the great and insurmoun-
table paradoxes of our world.
But his widow seems to hold
no grievances — not even to
Yassir Arafat, the man who,
she says,"cruelly, cruelly"
criticized her husband for
traveling to Jerusalem in

Jehan Sadat:
Arafat is "sincere."

1977 to tell Israel, "and the
whole world," as he put it,
"that we accept to live with
you in permanent peace
based on justice."
After Sadat was killed, the
ever-quotable Arafat com-
mended the killers. "We
shake the hand that pulled
the trigger," smirked Arafat.
And yet, the widow of the
former president of Egypt
now asks Israelis to trust
Arafat, this head of an
organization that, she recalls, _
has blown up Israeli schools
and hijacked airplanes.
Arafat, she says, has been
"sincere" in his recent renun-
ciations of terrorism and his
recognition of Israel. "I wish,"
she says, "the Israeli people
would accept his words. He is
trying his best. He should be
encouraged. And I am the one
who says this, I, whose hus-
band was threatened and kill-
ed by the Palestinians."
"But," she continued, "I
hate to speak in the past. We
are livingtoday and tomorrow.
Let the Palestinians have the
opportunity to explain them-
selves now. The Palestinian
people are the victims. They
have to have a homeland
because we cannot live in
peace while they are in
[refugee] camps. That's not
possible. I assure you, that
after losing all these years,
the Palestinians know that
the most opportunity for
them was to have shared in
what Sadat did. In the seven
and a half years since Sadat