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...most fascinating, challenging-and frustrating-capitals in the world," says World Editor, Ronald Kriss. All three elements were in play last week for Kriss, who returned from a visit to Egypt and Israel just in time to edit the current issue's cover story on Anwar Sadat...
Rogers hopes to get the two sides thinking this week about the practical problems in reopening Suez. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has two meetings scheduled with Rogers, and will probably spend both trying to persuade the Secretary to pressure Israel into agreeing to a withdrawal from the canal's vicinity. The way to do this, in Egypt's view, is to withhold further U.S. arms...
Rogers was instrumental in working out last year's cease-fire that stilled the fighting along the Suez Canal. There is a glimmer of hope that he may be able to find another compromise solution this time. Egyptians are frustrated over the lack of progress following President Anwar Sadat's major initiative of three months ago, in which he agreed to recognize Israeli sovereignty in return for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from occupied Egyptian territory. Cairenes last week also were angry that Israel has, in effect, decided to annex the strategic former Egyptian fortification of Sharm...
...minutes, they walk away and nobody gets hurt. This the Israelis don't realize." Rogers is hardly likely even to try to convince the Israelis of such a benign view of Arab bluster. Nonetheless, many Arabs last week welcomed Rogers' impending visit. Beirut's Al Anwar daily praised him as "one of the few Americans who have not succumbed to Zionist myopia...
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has had no luck in getting Israel to accept his proposals for settling the military impasse along the 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...