Interview with President Sadat | Egyptian President | Egypt | This Week | 1977

'This Week' Speaks to Egyptian President - Anwar Sadat about his on new economic policy, an “open—door” policy designed to attract foreign investors and build up a prosperous middle—class. He is
introducing what he describes as “my democracy”. He is confident of achieving “economic take—off”, and is unconcerned by suggestions that he is breeding uncontrollable tensions by encouraging untrammeled, capitalism. The recent rioters against raised food prices are “riff.-raff”. Criticism of rich men’s extravagance is “Marxist hatred”.
Given Egypts economic, plight, and Sadat’s reliance on foreign capital for revival, it is easy to understand the pressure ‘for peace, the necessity for peace. Yet economic revival seems so distant and the tensions implicit in Sadat’s chosen course so dangerous, that it is just as easy to see how peace could fail to provide an answer to Egypt’s problems, and war be once again the attractive option.

First shown: 09/06/1977
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