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...fated jet was Flight 4114, which left Benghazi on the regular run to Cairo. Flying along the Mediterranean coast, the plane turned south at El Alamein, then northeast at El Fayoum for the approach to Cairo. Inexplicably, Captain Bourges missed Cairo by a wide margin; the only reasonable explanation for his error was heavy cloud conditions over the area that afternoon that might have affected his navigational equipment...
Sadat got one positive foreign reaction last week, but it was less than entirely welcome. Rejoicing at the Soviet humiliation, Libya's staunchly anti-Communist Leader Muammar Gaddafi invited Sadat to Tobruk and Benghazi for three days of political conversation, and the Egyptian leader, after a few days of rest near Alexandria with his handsome wife Gehan, complied. Gaddafi's idea was that, with the Russians out of Egypt, the two Arab nations could finally consummate "a full and complete revolutionary merger" and presumably launch a jihad, or holy war, against Israel. Sadat wants neither another losing...
Most Maltese considered that a most unlikely story; Libya is so inexpert at air-traffic control that its airports at Tripoli and Benghazi are run by French and Egyptian technicians. More probably the arrivals were policemen and their crates contained arms. They had apparently come in case riots break out over the British evacuation and Maltese police are unable-or unwilling-to cope...
...appease this hard-line faction, and to hedge against unsuccessful peace talks, that Sadat last week made a gesture toward militant Arab unity; at a Benghazi meeting, he decided to form a new Union of Arab Republics composed of Egypt, Libya and Syria. The members will be pledged to joint defense and will also have the right to intervene in the affairs of the other states to prevent a coup d'etat. The three nations and their 42 million people are ultimately supposed to have one President, one flag, one military command and, of course, one enemy: Israel...
Arabs' Praise. In view of Egypt's obvious interest in Suez Canal negotiations, the surprising note in Benghazi was the saber-rattling declaration that the three members of the Union of Arab Republics would continue the war against Israel and even reopen the long-quiet eastern front. Visiting Cairo last week, TIME Senior Editor Ron Kriss received an explanation from Egyptian Deputy Foreign Minister Salah Gohar of what such declarations mean. "When Arabs argue," said Gohar, one of the main architects of Egypt's diplomatic strategy, "they start on opposite sidewalks and shout at one another...