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Israel did have at least one cause for applause last week as a result of its accords with Sadat. For the first time since 1959, a ship with Israel-bound cargo was about to go through the Suez Canal: the Greek vessel Olympus, loaded with some 8,000 tons of cement from Rumania. In addition, Sadat figured in Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's decision to postpone his scheduled visit to the U.S. from November to December, or even later. Mainly, Rabin wishes to avoid U.S. pressure to negotiate an accord with Syria on the Golan Heights before...
...North Atlantic Treaty Organization-two bodies closed to it as long as Franco remained in power. The U.S. would like to continue a special relationship of more than two decades, enabling Washington to maintain its key air and naval bases in Spain, for which a new five-year accord has just been negotiated. No one, however, could possibly welcome a peaceful transition more than the Spaniards themselves. With memories and tales of Civil War horrors still vivid and haunting, there is nothing more feared by Spaniards-except for the terrorists-than a renewal of that fratricidal bloodletting...
...from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar, Egypt will probably end 1975 with a $500 million deficit, raising the possibility that the country might default on its debts. The Saudi moneymen, moreover, are not happy-or think it impolitic to seem happy-about Egypt's signing of the Sinai accord, and they are likely to be less generous in the future...
...problem is that the National Salvation Party, a critical partner in his coalition, opposes any concessions to Greece or to Greek Cypriots that would affect Turkish military occupation of two-fifths of the divided island. The Premier could thus bring down the government if he pushes for a Cyprus accord acceptable to Athens...
...what the solution is. I know I am spending over half of my time now before congressional committees. And that, too, is getting to be a problem in policymaking. I spent 42 hours in testimony and in private conversations with Congressmen in a three-week period on the Sinai accord. That is a lot of time, and it is in addition to the normal congressional contacts...