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...Cairo daily al Ahram. What troubles the Arabs particularly is that if the Soviets can pull both Ethiopia and Somalia firmly into their orbit, they may successfully create an axis of influence along the African Horn that in time of crisis could give them control of the Bab el Mandeb Strait linking the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden...
...government has already been weakened by domestic bickering over the recent war, and will hardly be in a position to negotiate intensively -much less make significant concessions-until the elections are out of the way. Israel is also angry about Egypt's continuing blockade of the Bab el Mandeb straits at the southern end of the Red Sea, and in addition it is waiting to see how the Arab summit turns out. If the parley should prove to be a reprise of the Khartoum Conference of 1967, at which the Arabs vowed "no negotiations, no peace, no recognition," then...
...Concession. One point tentatively agreed on by Israel and Egypt but not set down specifically was the ending of a blockade of the Red Sea at Bab el Mandeb. Officially, the Egyptians deny that any such blockade exists. In fact, Egyptian ships have been patrolling the strait, mines have been laid there, and a small fleet of merchantmen is tied up in the Israeli port of Eilat as a result. The blockade was the cause of a fiery meeting of the Israeli Cabinet last week. After accepting Kissinger's terms, the Cabinet had second thoughts about the nonmention...
TIME has learned that Israel has sent elite commando units more than 1,200 miles beyond its borders to occupy several uninhabited islands within 85 miles of Bab el Mandeb. It has set up a radio and radar base on one of them, Zuqar, a 70-sq.-mi. waterless chunk of rock and sand in the Hanish group only 20 miles off the coast of Yemen. (Yemen claims sovereignty over Great Hanish, but the other ten islands in the group are officially unowned.) The Israeli commandos speak fluent Arabic, wear no uniforms and fly no flags. They are rotated every...
...quite so secret as the Israelis would like. The Yemenis said they had heard about it last summer from one Baruch Zaki Mizrachi, an alleged Israeli spy who confessed (probably under torture) that he had been assigned to thwart any land-based attack at Bab el Mandeb. Israel promptly denied it-and still does. Meanwhile, militarily powerless Yemen can do nothing about Israel's penetration except complain...