Mrs. Jihan Sadat, concluding a visit to the United States, said here that she hoped efforts toward a broader peace in the Middle East would continue as initiated by her late husband, President Anwar Sadat.
Speaking to some 100 persons at a reception in her honor last Thursday at the Regency Hotel sponsored by the Jerusalem Women’s Seminar, Mrs. Sadat noted that before the peaceful gestures of her late husband toward Israel, “We were two nations seeking to kill each other, enemies hating each other. But now we are friends … I hope it will continue and continue with other neighbors.”
Her brief remarks were well received by the Women’s Seminar, a non-profit organization designed to provide on opportunity for women from the U.S., Canada, Israel and Egypt to meet and participate in an interfaith, interdisciplinary forum. Mrs. Sadat arrived in the U.S. October II, her first visit to the U.S. after one year of mourning for the Egyptian leader who was assassinated in October. 1981. She left the U.S. last Friday after also having visited Washington.
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