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What incensed the committeemen was a relatively obscure section of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). It requires every federal agency to publish detailed statements on the "environmental impact" of every bridge or canal or other project under its jurisdiction-plus "reasonable" alternatives to those projects...
...political wars: Foreign Minister Abba Eban, 57. Newly admitted to the inner circle of the Labor Party's zameret (elite), the mellifluous-voiced diplomat has begun to soften his heavily starched image. He recently allowed himself to be photographed with his attractive blonde wife Suzy at the Suez Canal, wearing an almost shockingly informal tieless dark shirt. A dove in the past, he has begun to adopt a more hawkish-and thus more popular -stance on some issues. To match his new style, he has recruited a small new staff of politically savvy assistants. Sapir, meanwhile, has passed...
...brat, moving from base to base. She adored her father, who treated her like a boy, made her learn to ride almost as soon as she could walk. "Every morning at 5:30, the goddam horses were at the back door," she recalls of a stay in the Panama Canal Zone. She was on a raft there once, swimming with her father, when a "goddam crocodile was skulking under the raft." He ordered her to swim for shore anyway...
Hussein reportedly briefed other Arab leaders on his proposals before the palace speech, and promised not to undermine Egypt's efforts to negotiate a reopening of the Suez Canal. Perhaps for that reason, the reaction of other Arab nations was angry-but not nearly so angry as it might have been. The militant government of Iraq, which is fanatically opposed to Hussein, refused to receive a delegation that the King sent to explain his proposals. In Cairo, the semi-official newspaper Al Ahram charged that the proposals had been "inspired by the CIA to liquidate the Palestine question...
Presumably to demonstrate good faith, the Russians have been careful to avoid any clashes over Sinai between Egypt-based, Soviet-flown MIGs and Israeli jets. They also coordinated talks that were held in Europe during the past three months between Israeli and Egyptian diplomats over reopening of the canal. The discussions proved unproductive...