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...Mitla and Giddi passes and surrendering the Abu Rudeis oilfields in the Sinai desert. But the Israeli government is prepared to make less extensive territorial withdrawals in exchange for symbolic tokens of Egypt's peaceful intentions, like its allowing Israeli cargoes to pass through the reopened Suez Canal. One sticking point is Israel's insistence that any further disengagement deal be spelled out in a specific document; Sadat may be reluctant to sign for fear of criticism he might get from other Arab powers. Another problem is that Israel, which has expensively fortified its present positions...
...both Sadat and Rabin, however, success for the Kissinger talks should appear far more attractive than the alternative. If Kissinger fails, the odds are high that the two nations will drift into another war of attrition, similar to the one that racked the Suez Canal area in 1969 and 1970. Horrible as the casualties of last week's raid on Tel Aviv were, they are insignificant compared with the casualties that would have been likely to result from such a war-if the Palestinian act of desperation had succeeded...
Ironically, it was an Arab-Israeli conflict that marked both the rise and decline of the supertanker boom. Before the Six-Day War broke out in 1967, there was only one 200,000-ton ship in existence. But the closing of the Suez Canal created a need for huge ships that could economically carry oil the long way around Africa to the Atlantic. Soon U.S. oil imports began to increase sharply. Then came the October war, followed by the oil price increase and the worldwide recession that it helped cause. Even if oil consumption picks up smartly in the future...
...Mabel Longhetti--a woman deemed mad by society because she was more loving than she was supposed to be--and place it in some kind of historical framework. It didn't work. The problem was that our minds worked differently; our mainsprings were as different as a housebroken canal and a frenzied torrent...
...throw back such a force, the Israeli army in Sinai has switched tactics. There are no more forts like those that dotted the prewar Bar Lev Line along the canal. "We've changed our style," says one army commander. "We're basing our defense now on armor, mechanized troops and self-propelled guns that would move quickly to any trouble spot." Israeli armor is on constant alert. About the only time the engines of the 155-mm. and 175-mm. self-propelled gun carriers are turned off is when Soviet spy satellites are about to pass overhead...