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...Premier Golda Meir quickly pointed out, that Israel needs secure borders to ensure peace in the Middle East. At the same time, Egypt is becoming less and less optimistic about the chances of peace with Israel and the reopening of the Suez Canal. Al Ahram Editor Mohammed Hassanein Heikal, who usually mirrors official thinking, said last week that the time had come for another round of "effective attrition" against Israel combined with pressure...
Economic Aid. In a harsh column in the semi-official daily Al Ahram last week, Editor Mohammed Hassanein Heikal observed that "the U.S. is not in a position to exercise pressure on Israel, either because she does not want to or because she is unable to." This line is undoubtedly also being stressed by Soviet diplomats in Arab capitals. The implication is that while Washington is unable to exert pressure, Moscow may soon be in a position...
...withdrawal from occupied territory. United Nations talks under Jarring's aegis are stalemated. As an alternative, Egypt is considering a request for an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council in which it could propose a measure condemning Israel for not returning territory taken by force. Editor Hassanein Heikal, in his weekly column in Cairo's semiofficial Al Ahram last week, declared that "the international stage is ready for a conclusive movement by us, a decisive stand at the political level...
...move clearly put Israel on the spot. Al Ahram Editor Mohammed Hassanein Heikal wrote in his weekly column from Cairo: "Egypt's diplomacy has stripped the Israeli position of all cover-including the fig leaf." Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin was summoned home from Washington last week in order to explain current U.S. attitudes to the Cabinet...
...visit to troops along the canal, to be more a matter of morale building than a real condition for the talks. More and more, Sadat's policy is emerging as an extension of Nasser's. In Cairo's daily Al Ahram last week, Editor Hassanein Heikal, a Nasser confidant, wrote that Egypt's former President had become convinced before his death that a military solution of the Middle East situation could not succeed. According to Heikal, Nasser believed that Egypt could win back Sinai from Israel. But he considered his Arab allies too weak...