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Looked at on a map, Egypt is a big country: 386,900 sq. mi., or about the size of France and Spain put together. A satellite photo, which can distinguish between desert and arable land, tells a different story. Viewed from space, the real Egypt???the land that man can live on?is small and lotus-shaped. A thin, two-to ten-mile-wide strip of green, the flower's stem, follows the Nile north from the Sudan border; then, near Cairo, comes the blossom, the Nile Delta. In that narrow space of 13,800 sq. mi., no larger than...
...otherwise he faced little opposition at home. Although a skilled professional, the abrasive Fahmy is widely disliked by other Arab diplomats and has no power base in Egypt???least of all in the military, which for the moment backs Sadat's initiative. So do two of Egypt's three token opposition parties. Sadat also received the endorsement of one of his country's highest ranking Muslim leaders, Grand Sheikh Abdel Halim Mahmoud...
Vance's gloomy estimate discouraged and disillusioned Sadat. Despite lingering Israeli suspicions of his sincerity, the Egyptian President has been by far the most accommodating Arab leader in seeking new ways to achieve peace. Another extended period of waiting for that goal was something that Egypt???and Sadat?could not endure. His country was an economic cripple, with debts of $13 billon. It is now dependent on subsidies amounting to $5.4 billion from the U.S., Saudi Arabia and the other Arab oil states merely to keep going. Egypt's parlous economic situation is certainly a political hazard for Sadat. Seventy...
...Britain as a weapons merchant in the 1930s, has dropped from the big leagues. It sells some jet trainers to other Communist states and Syria, and mortars to Cuba; normally, however, Prague serves as a front for Moscow in politically sensitive transfers like the 1955 arms sale to Egypt???the first Communist penetration into the Middle East...
Nonbeligerent Atmosphere Complicating the situation is the vast Soviet presence that has been established in Egypt, not to mention the rest of the Middle East. There are between 12,000 and 15,000 Russians in Egypt??? from economists and engineers to missile technicians and MIG pilots? and any successor to Nasser will have to keep them in mind when he deals with Israel. Sovietologists do not believe that Russia wants all-out war with Israel, but they point out that "controlled