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Images of Truth, by Glenway Wescott. The author, one of the U.S.'s best nonwriting novelists (he wrote The Pilgrim Hawk), ends a long silence with a fine if critical collection of portraits of fellow authors-Katherine Anne Porter. Isak Dinesen, Thomas Mann and others...
...than the vision of Arabs and Israelis-or for that matter, Arabs and Arabs-rattling rockets at each other. But after a twelve-year limitation on major military aid to any Middle Eastern state, the U.S. broke the pattern by announcing that it would sell Israel a consignment of Hawk missiles. The professed reason: to offset Communist military aid to the Arab nations. Actually, the situation has not substantially changed since the 1960 pact between Nasser and the Soviet Union, which gave Egypt 60 Ilyushin jet bombers, several squadrons of new MIG-21 fighters and 500 T-54 tanks...
...itself, the Hawk does not represent any great threat to the Arabs. A supersonic ground-to-air missile with a range of 26 miles, the Hawk can hunt down hostile bombers in the skies above Israel but has little offensive capability. But the sudden reversal of U.S. policy spurred the Arab press to frenzy. "Americans urinate on their own principles!" screamed Beirut's Al Anwar. The Egyptian Gazette, drawing a parallel between the Middle East and the Caribbean, cried that "Israel is a greater menace to Arab countries than Cuba will ever be to the U.S." Cairo...
Even with the Hawk, which will not be operational for at least two years, Israel theoretically lags in the missile race. Last summer Nasser witnessed the successful test firing of the El Kaher (Conqueror) rocket, built in Egypt with the help of private West German and Italian companies. El Kaher has a range of 360 miles and could land, says Nasser pointedly, "just south of Beirut," i.e., in Israel. There is even a dim possibility of nuclear warheads. In moving up the escalator toward atomic power, Israel, with French help, has built a 24,000-kw. nuclear reactor...
...foreign oil company to continue production, thus assuring himself of a continuing income while he dickers for help in getting his own company on its feet. And help may not be hard to find. The Soviet Union might aid Kassem simply for political advantage. And in Rome sits hawk-faced Enrico Mattei, boss of Italy's state petroleum monopoly, who delights in defying the big Western oil companies. Though Mattei is getting oil more cheaply from Russia than he probably could from Iraq, he is under mounting pressure from other Common Market members to cut back his imports...