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...King Faisal and the collapse of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's latest efforts at shuttle diplomacy (TIME, April 7) should have led to a period of drift in the Middle East and perhaps of rising tensions. Instead, thanks to an unexpected move by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the next three months might still see some progress toward a second-stage disengagement agreement between Israel and Egypt...
...minute interview with TIME's Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn last week, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat indicated his willingness -under certain conditions-to renew the mandate of the United Nations peace-keeping force for longer than three months and to consider allowing nonstrategic Israeli cargoes to transit the reopened Suez Canal. Excerpts...
During this re-assessment period, the results of which will probably be announced by President Ford Thursday night, Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat has shown that he is eager to avoid a new war though he has not indicated any anxiousness for a permanent settlement. Sadat said last week that he will open the Suez Canal on June 5, the eighth anniversary of the start of the Six Day War. The reopening of the canal will require significant capital investment by Egypt, and will provide a steady source of revenue from foreign countries, revenue which Egypt badly needs. Since...
...Riyadh announcer. Panic and hysteria swept through the dusty streets of the capital as the news spread. Fierce Bedouin tribesmen wept openly; army and police units moved into strategic positions throughout the city. Within hours, every Arab government had proclaimed extended periods of mourning. Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, who had received extensive aid and political support from the Saudi King, called Faisal "a tireless fighter for the Arab cause." Tunisia's aging President Habib Bourguiba, who described Faisal as a friend of 30 years and "a force for stability and moderation," broke off a meeting with Libya...
...Egypt, in spite of President Anwar Sadat's recent arms shopping in France, remains dependent on the U.S.S.R. for weapons. No matter how edgy Sadat is about such dependence, he knows it would take years to retrain Egyptian forces to use an alternative weapons system...