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...Erie Canal (Doubleday, $4.50) is the 30th book by Peter Spier, a Dutch-born, academy-trained artist whose illustrations are to most juvenile scenery what a Tiepolo ceiling is to a hand-decorated pup tent. Too many children's books present lumpily massive, poster-hued semi-primitive drawings that intrigue for only one or two cheerful skim-throughs. Spier, by contrast, spends months accumulating visual research and folios of tiny sketches for his subjects. When he shows the 19th century harbor of Honfleur (in Hurrah, We're Outward Bound!) or the 18th century Thameside (in London Bridge...
Eban was referring to a statement by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat demanding "a timetable for withdrawal." But diplomats in Cairo considered Sadat's statement, made during a visit to troops along the canal, to be more a matter of morale building than a real condition for the talks. More and more, Sadat's policy is emerging as an extension of Nasser's. In Cairo's daily Al Ahram last week, Editor Hassanein Heikal, a Nasser confidant, wrote that Egypt's former President had become convinced before his death that a military solution of the Middle...
...Dayan will re-emphasize the points made in Mrs. Meir's letter, but he will also stress his own controversial disengagement plan. Dayan has called for Israel to withdraw its armor and artillery and Egypt its missiles and guns to 18 miles from the banks of the Suez Canal. Egypt would then be free to reopen the canal for shipping and return half a million refugees who fled from their imperiled homes along the canal during the bitter fighting before the ceasefire. For Egypt, the idea would mean canal revenues and restored prestige. For Israel, it could lead...
...firm peace settlement, and he has steadfastly opposed the idea of integrating the economies of these territories with Israel's. On this he long differed with Dayan, who took a hawkish view. Lately, however, Dayan has been promoting a dovish plan for disengagement at the Suez Canal. In so doing, he has irritated other Cabinet members, who feel that he wants to give away too much for too little. Dayan has had no qualms about being an irritant or proposing radical ideas; as the fighting hero of Israel's 1956 war and the Defense Minister who engineered...
...years a special presidential commission studied possible routes for an Atlantic-Pacific waterway to replace the existing Panama Canal. A route along the Nicaraguan-Costa Rican border looked appealing; so did one through Colombia. Last week, however, the commission recommended a 36-mile sea-level canal across Panama, only ten miles west of the present one. It will be able to accommodate all 150,000-ton ships as well as the U.S. Navy's 60,000-ton Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers, which are too wide for the present canal. The new canal will also have the potential...