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Earlier, Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad met privately with Rogers at the Secretary's suite in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers; such is the degree of U.S. concern that President Nixon personally telephoned Rogers' suite to voice still one more plea for rectification...
...becoming increasingly slim. Israeli Premier Golda Meir, after conferring in Washington with President Nixon, again ruled out negotiations with the other side until Egypt agreed to "roll back" the Soviet missiles that were installed in the standstill zone along the Suez in violation of truce terms. Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad angrily declared that the U.S. peace initiative was "dead...
...last fall when foreign ministers gathered in New York for the new session of the U.N. General Assembly. In private discussions, the Secretary confirmed that the principal Arab demand was Israeli withdrawal, while Israel's primary requirement was recognition and security. Moreover, Rogers learned from Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad that the Arabs, who refused to deal openly with Israel, privately were agreeable to third-party talks like those that U.N. Negotiator Ralph Bunche conducted on Rhodes in 1948-49 to settle the first Arab-Israeli...
...ships trapped in the Great Bitter Lake by the closing of the Suez Canal that he stood up Arab Commando Leader Yasser Arafat and influential Editor Hassanein Heikal for lunch. During his talks with Nasser, he repeatedly addressed Nasser's adviser on foreign affairs, Dr. Mahmoud Fawzi, as "you wily old bugger...
...time last week, in fact, it seemed that Nasser was offering a peace feeler. Speaking with reporters at the U.N., Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad was understood to say that his country would negotiate directly with Israel-even before the Israelis withdrew from Arab lands. Later Riad denied saying anything about direct talks, but he did say that Israel and Egypt were engaged in "Rhodes-type" negotiations. This approach was used in the 1948-49 peace talks on the island of Rhodes, where the Arabs and Israelis, for the record at least, never directly faced each other. Proposals...