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Britain's decision to withdraw from the gulf was an unsettling blow to the Trucial States. One robed sheik explained why to TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott as they sat sipping Evian water in an Abu Dhabi hotel lobby. "We have a saying here that my next-door neighbor is my enemy, but the man from afar is my friend." So anxious was oil-rich Abu Dhabi to maintain a referee and peacekeeper in the area that it. quietly proposed to help cover British costs with a $60 million subsidy. When London demurred, the neighboring sheiks-who are all absolute...
Wiesner. What actually happened on the study referred to in the Times was that we began to examine General (James) Gavin's enclave proposal seriously and we decided we didn't have enough facts about where the troops were, where the civilian population was, and a great number of other important questions. We called somebody, I believe it was John McNaughton (Assistant Secretary of Defense for international security affairs) and asked him for a briefing and he said he would send up (Adam) Yarmolinsky (Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense) to give us the data we wanted. And Yarmolinsky...
Super Dilemma. The domestic ramifications of the situation are not lost on the Arabs. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott in Cairo last week, Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad, a shrewd and seasoned diplomat, professed to be confused. "It is something we cannot understand-how a superpower wild certain responsibilities about peace in the world can be affected by some votes in an election. We don't understand how it is commonly accepted that the Jews are a community completely separate from other Americans, as if their loyalty is to Israel rather than to their own country...
...either surrendered to the King or fled to friendlier Arab countries. George Habash, the soft-eyed physician who still leads the militantly Marxist P.F.L.P., is determined to continue the fight. In his first interview with a Western newsman since last year's hijackings, he told TIME'S Gavin Scott: "We are beaten. We are having a very hard time. But from these hard times we will build a real underground...
...would be only the first step, at best, in an overall settlement, for it would leave unresolved the fate of Jerusalem and the West Bank of the Jordan River, both of which were ruled by Hussein before the Six-Day War in 1967. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott in the sunken living room of Al-Hummar palace, Hussein made these points: > Jerusalem. "It is the main issue," said Hussein. The King is particularly worried because Jerusalem is the only occupied territory that Israel has formally annexed and because the Israelis are building vast housing projects for their...