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Economic Aid. In a harsh column in the semi-official daily Al Ahram last week, Editor Mohammed Hassanein Heikal observed that "the U.S. is not in a position to exercise pressure on Israel, either because she does not want to or because she is unable to." This line is undoubtedly also being stressed by Soviet diplomats in Arab capitals. The implication is that while Washington is unable to exert pressure, Moscow may soon be in a position...
Open criticism is being allowed again, and there have been some pointed attacks on the Pan-Arabism that flourished under Nasser and all but obliterated millenniums of Egyptian history. Wrote Literary Editor Louis Awad of Cairo's Al Ahram: "If you search in the six reading books taught from Grade 1 to Grade 6 in Egyptian schools, you do not come across the name Egypt even once. You only discover stupid poems that begin, I am an Arab. My father is Arab. My brother is Arab. Long live the Arabs.' " So pronounced is the "Egypt first" mood, that the Cairo...
...Suez Canal. He has, however, made progress in prompting Arab unity. Last week he signed an agreement of "confederation" with Syria's Lieut. General Hafez Assad and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. Despite the optimistic tone of the announcement in Cairo's semi-official newspaper Al Ahram, Sadat gave no indication of what form the new confederation would take, or when it might go into effect...
...aegis are stalemated. As an alternative, Egypt is considering a request for an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council in which it could propose a measure condemning Israel for not returning territory taken by force. Editor Hassanein Heikal, in his weekly column in Cairo's semiofficial Al Ahram last week, declared that "the international stage is ready for a conclusive movement by us, a decisive stand at the political level...
...border rectifications Washington would support) and his call for an equitable solution of the Palestine refugee problem (though he did not suggest a specific solution). "The U.S. President," said the Beirut newspaper Al Jarida approvingly, "is trying to strike a balance in the U.S. position." Cairo's Al Ahram detected "new elements" in the U.S. approach. That is true largely because the U.S. has lately discerned new elements in the Arab approach. Not long ago, Libya ousted the U.S. Air Force from its huge Wheelus Base; Jordan expelled an American envoy; bombs ripped U.S. cultural centers in Beirut...