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There are few roads in Yemen, and last week they were all crowded with Egyptian troop convoys headed for the sea. As he promised at the Arab sum mit at Khartoum in August, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser is calling his sol diers home. Five thousand have already left, and another 5,000 are converging on the Red Sea port of Hodeida to await transport. The remaining 10,000 are pulling out of their defensive posi tions in Yemen's bleak highlands, abandoning the Republican-held capital of San'a and the dusty town of Taiz...
...aftermath of their Khartoum summit meeting, some Arab nations finally began to patch up their quarrels with one another. They also began to deal more rationally with the West. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Libya dropped their oil embargo against the U.S. and Britain and reaffirmed their promise to subsidize Egypt and Jordan to the tune of $392 million a year as long as "traces of Israeli aggression" persist. Egypt and Sudan restored landing rights to Britain's BOAC, and Egypt was on the verge of allowing T.W.A. back into Cairo. Even those two archenemies among the Arabs-Egypt...
...Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban called a press conference in Jerusalem and once more spelled out his country's position. "We have looked in vain for any sign of moderation in the official attitude of the Arab states," he said. "There are no such signs at all. The Khartoum conference decided on three principles: no recognition of Israel, no negotiation with Israel, no peace with Israel. These resolutions cannot be described as moderate decisions...
First Saudi Arabia, then Kuwait, Libya and Iraq-the four major Arab oil-producing states-agreed to resume shipments in keeping with the deal struck two weeks ago by Arab heads of state at their summit session in Khartoum. Another three months of embargo, explained Egyptian Minister of Economy Hassan Abbas Zaki, would cost the West $770 million worth of oil but would deprive the Arab producers of $870 million of income. Only Algeria, the fifth-ranking producer, kept its embargo. And even that involved more symbolism than substance, since the overwhelming percentage of Algerian output goes...
...silting from its sandy banks may require fresh dredging. Oilmen glumly predict that Egypt's Nasser will keep the artery closed at least until year's end and perhaps indefinitely. He can afford to sacrifice his chief source of foreign exchange because other Arab states promised in Khartoum to give Egypt a $266 million-a-year subsidy-about equal to the canal's annual toll revenues...