President Anwar Sadat of Egypt has declined an offer by the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba to award him an honorary doctorate when he visits the university May 26 to address the faculty and students. While expressing his thanks to the university for its offer he said he does not accept any honorary titles.
Sadat agreed to address the faculty and students during a telephone conversation he had last Friday with Premier Menachem Begin during which Begin congratulated Sadat on the results of Egypt’s national referendum to approve the Israeli-Egyptian peace agreement. The two leaders also agreed that Begin will fly in Sadat’s plane from EI Arish to Beersheba via Ben Gurion Airport, thus officially opening the air route between Egypt and Israel.
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