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...move clearly put Israel on the spot. Al Ahram Editor Mohammed Hassanein Heikal wrote in his weekly column from Cairo: "Egypt's diplomacy has stripped the Israeli position of all cover-including the fig leaf." Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin was summoned home from Washington last week in order to explain current U.S. attitudes to the Cabinet...
...issue, however, the fedayeen seemed united. When the semi-official Cairo newspaper Al Ahram claimed that the guerrillas "unanimously" supported efforts by Egypt and Jordan to achieve a settlement with Israel, the major fedayeen organizations brusquely denied the story. Fedayeen spokesmen agreed that if the Arab governments wanted to negotiate with Israel to recover their lost territories, they would have no objection -as long as the negotiations did not impinge on Palestinian rights...
...statement, made during a visit to troops along the canal, to be more a matter of morale building than a real condition for the talks. More and more, Sadat's policy is emerging as an extension of Nasser's. In Cairo's daily Al Ahram last week, Editor Hassanein Heikal, a Nasser confidant, wrote that Egypt's former President had become convinced before his death that a military solution of the Middle East situation could not succeed. According to Heikal, Nasser believed that Egypt could win back Sinai from Israel. But he considered his Arab allies...
...Egypt, Premier Mahmoud Fawzi gave an interview to the daily Al Ahram, stressing the needs of the "ordinary man" in Egypt and concluding: "We must exert a tremendous effort on the domestic side before things start looking up for us abroad...
...quiet signal came in the form of a dispatch from the United Nations to the authoritative Cairo newspaper Al Ahram. Previously, the Sadat administration said it would not extend the truce unless Israel agreed to resume peace talks under the aegis of Mediator Gunnar Jarring. In the Al Ahram story, Egyptian diplomats indicated that they would extend the cease-fire even without agreement on resumption of talks, but only for a 60-day period...