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THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES THE SERIOUS OPPOSITION THAT ANWAR SADAT FACES IN EGYPT. THE AUTHOR SAYS THAT THE WESTERN ORIENTATION OF HIS FOREIGN POLICY IS ANATHEMA TO EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS. SIGNING OF THE CAMP DAVID AGREEMENTS WITH ISRAEL HAS ISOLATED HIM FROM THE ARAB WORLD. HIS ECONOMIC POLICIES HAVE FAILED, WHICH HAS HEIGHTENED UNREST, AND HIS SURVIVAL IS AT STAKE.

Relationship of the debt problem to setbacks in agriculture; assistance efforts on the part of the US, International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.

When NATO came into being in 1949, not a few believed that before long it would succumb to threats from without. They thought the fledgling organization would prove unequal to the task of keeping Soviet power from spilling over the boundaries of the Alliance. But they were wrong.Still others believed that NATO would succumb to problems from within. They doubted that Alliance members would be willing to subordinate their own narrowed interests to the interests of the community as a whole. But they too were wrong.Only a handful of the collective security organizations in history have matched NATO's record of longevity. At the age of thirty-four the Alliance is not just alive—it is flourishing.

When he signed the Camp David treaty with Israel, President Anwar Sadat promised the Egyptian people that this would bring peace and prosperity. He assured American policymakers that as a leader in the Arab world, he would be in an opportune position to play a role in the region as an intermediary between the U.S. and Egypt's Arab-Moslem neighbors, and to act as a bridge for peace between Israel and its Arab adversaries. Among many of Egypt's Arab sister states, however, Sadat became known as a traitor, and his country became profoundly alienated from them. Since Sadat's assassination, this condition has not improved. In fact, in recent years Egypt seems to have lost influence and prestige in the international as well as the regional community, and domestic problems have mounted, adding to the growing crisis of legitimacy which surfaced around the time of Sadat's death.

For the past four decades, the Bonneville Power Administration(BPA) has played a singular and powerful role in developing the Northwest regional electric power system, and indirectly in the regional economy that system supports. The federal government's decision during the first half of this century to develop multi-purpose water resource projects led to the construction of many dams, most of them in the Western United States, most built since the mid-1930s, and most including hydroelectric generation. As we enter the 1980s, fundamental changes have occurred. Historically, BPA has had sufficient resources to sell power to any utility or other customer in the region. Until recently, finding markets for the abundant low-cost federal power was a perennial problem. However, the era of abundance has abruptly ended. The entire region now faces substantial electric energy deficits for the foreseeable future.