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...bitter, five-hour meeting of the 150-man central committee of the Arab Socialist Union last month, Sabry launched a showdown attack on the federation. Like the pro-Communist Sudanese, the left-leaning Sabry objected to any alliance with Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, a fundamentalist Moslem who vigorously opposes Communism. Sabry's real target, however, was Sadat. Sabry bluntly demanded: "Where did you get the authority to agree to this federation...
...some progress is made on the Suez plan, fighting may break out again by September. That is when the summer heat begins to abate. It is also when the three-nation Arab federation is scheduled to come into existence, and at least one of the founders, Libya's mercurial Gaddafi, will be putting pressure on Sadat to take some action against Israel. Sadat told Rogers that if there are no results by September, he anticipates tremendous domestic pressure to resume fighting...
Libyan Gain. The amalgamation is an obvious gain in stature for Libya's flamboyant Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The proposed union may also help Syrian Strongman Hafez Assad, who now may be able as a partner to collect some of the $24 million in Libyan oil revenues that Gaddafi grandly promised Syria last fall. There appears, however, to be little advantage in confederation for Egypt, which has been trying to relax its pan-Arabism somewhat in order to concentrate on progress at home. Egypt will receive little military assistance from Libya. Of 110 French Mirages being sold to Gaddafi, only...
...luck in getting Israel to accept his proposals for settling the military impasse along the Suez Canal. He has, however, made progress in prompting Arab unity. Last week he signed an agreement of "confederation" with Syria's Lieut. General Hafez Assad and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. Despite the optimistic tone of the announcement in Cairo's semi-official newspaper Al Ahram, Sadat gave no indication of what form the new confederation would take, or when it might go into effect...
...Libya, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has toned down the anti-Western posture he struck after deposing antique King Idris in 1969. Gaddafi, who has apparently come to the belated realization that he was isolating himself from practically everybody but Cairo and Moscow, has moved hesitantly toward renewed relations with the West. Meanwhile he has been ignoring Soviet requests to let units of their Mediterranean fleet call at any Libyan port Gaddafi may designate...