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...break the blockade themselves. But many U.S. policymakers are disenchanted with U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, not only for his blatant partisanship on Viet Nam, but also for his aphronic action in pulling the entire U.N. peace-keeping force out of the Sinai desert, particularly since Nasser originally asked him to remove it from only half of the 120-mile truce line. In a rare public slap at Thant, Johnson said he was "dismayed at the hurried withdrawal...
...week's end the necessity for such a move seemed remote. Despite Nasser's ego-building bellicosity, he does not really seem to want a showdown, for he is well aware that the Arab world is badly fragmented and that Israel's finely honed army could turn back anything less than a concerted assault by all of its neighbors. In this situation, Johnson's strategy is to leave the problem in the U.N.'s lap for as long as possible in the hope that Egypt will somehow find a way to disimpale itself from...
...Cairo, Nasser's own two sons volunteered for military service, inspired not only by their father's swollen rhetoric but by the martial music that suddenly took the place of whiny Arab folk songs on Radio Cairo. The absentee-prone Lebanese parliament, perhaps the world's most unmartial body, became so incensed that it took the warlike step of ending its emergency session with a wildly off-key singing of the national anthem. National Guardsmen in Da mascus had a fine time stopping all traffic on the city's wide boulevards and ordering everyone to take...
...Arabs, prepare to die as martyrs so that we may be assured of victory. Martyrdom is the hope of every fighter." At week's end Nasser once more went on the radio to say that any war with Israel "will be total, and the objective will be to destroy Israel. We feel confident that we can win a war with Israel, with God's help." It was, in short, the week in which the Arab countries declared talk on Israel...
Perhaps the most ingenuous attempt to find a solution was made by United Nations Secretary General U Thant, who flew off to Cairo on short notice to chat with Nasser. After running the gauntlet of workers chanting "God is great, long live Nasser, Egypt will win!" and being forced to cool his heels for 24 hours at Cairo's Nile Hilton, Thant finally got to see Nasser at a four-hour "working dinner," at which he mostly listened. He accomplished little, and returned a day earlier than planned to the U.N., where he handed the Security Council an unremarkable...