The Russians are so powerful in Egypt that they were able to censor a speech by President Anwar Sadat, it was reported today by the Daily Telegraph’s correspondent John Bulloch. Writing from Cyprus after having visited Egypt, Bulloch referred to Sadat’s speech Monday to 15,000 Egyptian farmers in the Nile delta village of Tanta where he disclosed that six Russian soldiers were killed in Egypt during an Israeli raid last year on a missile base 20 miles south of Cairo. This disclosure, made for the first time publicly, was carried by the Cairo radio station summarizing a report of Sadat’s remarks issued by the Middle East News Agency. Two-and-a-half hours later, MENA issued a message to all its subscribers marked “urgent” and provided a “corrected version” which made no mention of the deaths of the Russian soldiers.
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