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...next 25 years. Lebanon, Jordan and Israel could agree to harness common rivers for electric power and irrigation. Egypt and Israel build a trans-Sinai railway from Tel Aviv to Cairo. All the nations of the Fertile Crescent join in a Middle East Common Market. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Libya each contribute one-half of 1 % of oil revenues toward the education and resettlement of Palestinian refugees...
...miles to the south, and broke out in stretches inside the northern and eastern borders, where at least 2,000 Palestinian troops crossed into Lebanon from bases in Syria. The Syrian government insisted that it would not send its army into Lebanon, but its sympathies, like those of Libya, were clearly with the fedayeen. Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi urged the guerrillas to seize the Beirut airport so that he could send them Libyan fighter planes. Syria closed its border to Lebanon; with the Beirut airport also shut down and 40 ships unable to unload cargo, Lebanon was virtually isolated...
...Easter Sunday, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban summoned French Ambassador Francis Huré from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to present him with what Eban called "documentary evidence" that 18 of the 70 Mirages that France has so far delivered to Libya had been flown to Egypt. Eban said later that he had supplied the French with the number of the planes, the dates of their transfer, their present location, as well as proof that ground installations for controlling the Mirages in flight have been put up at the Egyptian airbase at Almaza, east of Cairo...
...sense, neither side was profoundly concerned about the facts of the matter. The French policy of distinguishing between a Mirage deal with Egypt and one with Libya is by now a bit spurious. The two countries are scheduled to merge Sept. 1, and a major aim of the newly created state will be to strengthen Arab unity against Israel. The Israelis, for their part, fully expected that some of the planes would wind up in Egyptian hands. Moreover, they have no reason to be particularly upset by the news, since the highly trained Israeli air force, which has about...
What was at stake, said Eban last week, was "the integrity of assurances" given repeatedly by the French. Israel clearly hopes that France can be forced to put pressure on Libya to halt any transfer of planes to Egypt -thereby embarrassing Paris' relations with the Arab states. The Israelis believe that their relations with the Common Market nations have been adversely affected by France's strongly pro-Arab policies. Thus they would dearly love to discredit the French just before a new round of Common Market discussions on EEC relations with Israel begins...