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Diplomats in Washington and at the U.N. were cautiously pleased that the prisoner deal had been worked out and that the cease-fire across the Suez Canal was holding. Yet there were serious doubts about what would happen next, particularly as far as Israel was concerned. The prisoner problem is an intensely emotional one for the Israelis. Despite the agreement with Egypt on the exchange, there were no negotiations with Syria regarding the 130 or so prisoners it holds. Last week in Israel, and even in Cairo, there were disturbing rumors of Israelis being tortured and mutilated. Israel...
Arik's Complaint. The opening salvo in this war was fired by Major General Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, 45, who was called out of retirement to lead the successful Israeli thrust across the Suez Canal that helped trap Egypt's Third Army. In interviews with reporters from the New York Times and Los Angeles Times that were filed from Rome to skirt the tough Israeli censors, Sharon charged that his superiors were not prepared for the war. The General amplified his accusations in yet another in- -terview with American University Professor Amos Perlmutter: "The Southern Command collapsed completely...
...real mismanagement, however, was not military but political. The argument was over who was going to cross the canal first and who would be chosen to do it, not how it should be done. I told them I am commander of 15,000 troops and I have no tune to screw you now because I have to screw the Egyptians. Now I have no tune to fight with you politically, but when the war is over you will all have to wear helmets...
Seizures in the canal are not uncommon: the Cuban and Soviet ships were the 17th and 18th to be impounded this year under the legal theory that the presence of the property confers jurisdiction on the U.S. Zone court. In accordance with admiralty law, such actions can be ordered on behalf of claimants who show an apparent debt of the shipowner. The issue is then formally tried in court. Usually, however, the disputes are conventional commercial squabbles...
...released. But last week, just before the Imias would have sailed, the angry Chileans put up a required $25,000 appeal bond, and the case is now before the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Thus at week's end the Imias was still stuck in the canal, where its captain says he will sink her rather than give her up. The whole episode has left Panamanian officials outraged. With U.S. control of the canal about to be renegotiated, they plan to cite the seizures in support of a demand that U.S. courts be removed from the Canal Zone...