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...Arabs had many more serious problems in their ranks. A meeting of the main Arab combatants in Tripoli was boycotted by Iraq and Algeria and criticized by Arab commandos. Nasser, clearly stung by recent demonstrations against him in Baghdad, took an angry swipe at Iraqi military performance, asking sarcastically: "Why has the enemy not been attacking your forces?" In Amman, pro-Nasser and anti-Nasser guerrillas clashed twice, killing at least two of their number and taking rival prisoners. As the splits in Arab unity grew deeper each day, Beirut Columnist Adel Malek declared: "What is really needed...
...cease-fire should hold between the Israelis and the Arabs, there is no guarantee that the two sides can move any closer to the final settlement, which has eluded them through three wars and nearly a quarter-century of bitterness. "The chances of success on the U.S. proposals," Nasser reportedly calculated, "are only half of 1%." Golda Meir admitted that "ahead of us still lie difficult trials." Nonetheless, Washington sees greater hope than in many years for some kind of Middle East settlement-or, at the very least, a prolonged cooling-off period. For one thing the cease-fire...
...attacks fortified Egyptian resolve and made him stronger than ever. Arab anger over the Phantoms increased to high pitch after two raids early this year in which bombs killed 88 noncombatant factory workers at a town called Abu Zabal and 38 schoolchildren at Bahr Al-Bakar. In January, Nasser made a quick and secret trip to the Soviet Union to seek additional military equipment. The Soviet response was to provide additional MIG-21s-flown by Soviet pilots-and SA3 missiles operated by Russian crews. The Soviet intervention changed the Middle East. It had become a point of possible confrontation between...
...trouble with Resolution 242, it appeared-after the Jarring mission had failed and Nasser broke the cease-fire -was that too much responsibility for peacemaking was put on parties who were at war. Rogers' lawyer instincts told him that the principals were too hostile to accomplish much without outside help. On that basis, Rogers decided to let Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Joseph J. Sisco commence quiet discussions with the Russians. Chicago-born Sisco, 50, who holds a doctorate in international relations and is a 19-year State Department veteran, had begun handling the Middle...
Arab leaders have no intention of completely giving in on the Palestinian issue. But most leaders are willing to consider a compromise, especially as part of a deal that would return the territories captured by the Israelis in the 1967 war. Even Egypt's Nasser has spoken privately of a negotiated plan that would allow "significant numbers" to return to their homeland...