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Impressive as these advances were, the P.L.O. nonetheless fell short of its goal of making 1975 the "Year of Escalation and Unity." To Arafat's dismay, Egypt's Sadat signed the second Sinai accord with Israel, even though it made no reference to the Palestinian problem...
Outside Egypt, however, the veneration of Nasser will continue. Libyans, Palestinians, Syrians and other Arabs are using the memory of Nasser to attack Sadat, who is regarded by the hardliners as soft toward Israel for having signed the second Sinai accord. Conveniently, the radical Arabs forget that even Nasser mellowed somewhat before his death, accepting in principle...
...West" of waging "campaigns of misinformation, all sorts of pinpricks to ... poison the situation." Brezhnev charged that critics were emphasizing some parts of the Helsinki agreement, notably the ones that call for a greater flow of people and ideas across borders, while ignoring the overall spirit of the accord, which endorses mutual coexistence...
...Israeli action placed Egypt in a particularly uncomfortable position. The day before the raids, Egypt had taken over the Abu Rudeis oilfields, which Israel had given up as part of the second Sinai accord. The Egyptians thus regained a $1 million-a-day resource, but the takeover made them appear to be on embarrassingly good terms with Israel at a bad moment. Privately, the Egyptians were furious at the Syrians for having undermined President Anwar Sadat's attempts to ease tensions in the area. As one high government official told TIME: "They have called a Security Council debate that...
...political achievement for the Palestinian cause," proclaimed the Damascus newspaper Al Thawra. "The Security Council's resolution was a defeat for the step-by-step diplomacy and the policy of bilateral and partial solutions." Syrian Defense Minister Major-General Moustafa Tlas also gratuitously sneered at the Egyptian-Israeli accord on the Sinai. "The Egyptian administration regained a few kilometers of land," he said, "where troops armed with rifles only can enter. But the Egyptian army cannot take up positions in the strategic Sinai passes because American spies and experts will be stationed there...