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Last week it was Russia's turn to savor the special inhospitality of smaller nations for great powers. Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, responding to his army's discontent and a larger popular disgruntlement with the foreign presence, ordered Russia's military advisers to pack up and leave (see THE WORLD). In a sense, the U.S. could sympathize with Moscow. Presumably the Soviets, in suffering this diplomatic set back, were also acquiring a bit of weary worldliness about not trying to be the world's policeman - or whatever the Russian equivalent of that...
When they invited her to Bucharest, Rumanian diplomats had explained that President Ceauşescu had had a promising conversation with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat during a recent visit to Cairo-and wanted to share his thoughts with Mrs. Meir. But after Ceauşescu and Mrs. Meir talked twice for a total of nine hours, aides strove to convey the impression that there was less to the meetings than met the eye. The conversation was said to be largely exploratory, as Mrs. Meir pressed for direct talks with Egypt and Ceauşescu avoided any role as mediator. Still...
Political shock waves from King Hussein's proposal to reunite Jordan and the Israeli-occupied West Bank are still reverberating through the Middle East. Last week, Egypt abruptly broke off diplomatic relations with Jordan. President Anwar Sadat hinted that he might also close Egyptian airspace to Jordanian aircraft, thereby cutting off the kingdom's only access to the Mediterranean and Europe...
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's personal distaste for his Russian allies has long been one of the worst-kept secrets in the Arab world. Sadat is not given to making his private views public. But observers close to the Cairo scene report that Egyptian-Soviet relations are now at their lowest point since Sadat's Cabinet purge last year, when he first realized the full extent of Russian infiltration of Egypt's political and administrative apparatus...
...timing of last week's announcement of agreement in Jerusalem was hardly accidental. It coincided with a trip to Moscow by Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, who angrily maintains that he has broken all contacts with the U.S. on any talks. Thus Sadat, instead of Golda Meir, could now be cast as the reluctant party. The U.S. is hopeful that Sadat, after he returns to Cairo, will decide to take part in the discussions, which have been dubbed "hotel talks" because, in one proposed formulation, all three parties would be housed in a single hotel...