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...jetted about the Middle East last week, it looked as if Gamal Abdel Nasser were going acourtin' once more. Extending a three-day Libyan visit to six days, he drew crowds of 40,000 in Tripoli, 65,000 in Benghazi. He further delighted Libyans by appearing as a witness at the wedding of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, 27, the nation's revolutionary leader, to Fathia Khaled, daughter of an army officer. In Khartoum, he joined Major General Jaafar Numeiry, Sudan's boss since an army coup last year, in celebrating the country's 14th anniversary of independence...
...only moral (if not necessarily realistic) solution to the tragic dilemma of the displaced Palestinians by allowing them to choose between compensation or repatriation. Yet the plan appeared to irritate almost everyone concerned. Moscow dismissed it as an attempt "to disunite the Arab countries." Egypt's President Nasser said that no matter what the plan proposed, "American imperialistic policy is [still] behind Israel." The Israelis argued that the U.S. was giving the Arabs most of what they demanded without any commitment from them to enter peace talks...
...Jewish organizations called on Rogers, and a heated two-hour meeting ensued. They counterpointed another group-including Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller and other businessmen with substantial Middle East interests-that had been closeted earlier last month with Richard Nixon. Rockefeller was fresh from a meeting with Nasser, and he and the others warned of the dangers that a one-sided Middle East policy could cause. Washington, in fact, may not be altogether unhappy over the ferocity of Israel's objections. The louder the complaints, the more evenhanded the policy may appear to suspicious Arabs...
...Morocco's Rabat Hilton. The divisive agenda item was an Egyptian proposal that the other twelve members of the conference assist Egypt and Jordan by playing a greater part in the war against Israel. "I want to know whether you want to participate in the battle or not," Nasser demanded at the final working session. "I ask you please to tell me whether you want to fight." Earlier Egypt's Defense Minister, General Mohammed Fawzi, had unveiled a "mobilization plan" proposing that...
...halls of the Rabat Hilton echoed with the usual anti-Israel sentiments. But discussions were tempered somewhat by the course of outside events. Nasser recently sent a delegation to Moscow seeking increased arms shipments. The Egyptians also sought a vigorous nyet to recent U.S. peace proposals, which include, among other things, Israeli withdrawal from Sinai in return for a negotiated peace settlement with the Egyptians. The delegation came home bearing a message from Premier Aleksei Kosygin saying that Moscow still hopes for a political settlement of the Middle East crisis. Until the Soviets change their minds, which seems highly improbable...