Shah’s funeral in Egypt

However, most of the world’s nations shunned the event.President Anwar Sadat, stiff in a blue field marshal’s uniform and knee-high jackboots, saluted solemnly as a row of trumpets blared a funeral march. A long cannon boomed 21 times to signal Egypt’s official mourning for the man-widely despised in his own country — whom Sadat called “my true and dear friend.”