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...Khrushchevian effort was Egypt, whose President Gamal Abdel Nasser he wooed with $2 billion worth of arms, agricultural aid and the Aswan High Dam. But with Khrushchev's downfall in 1964, Russian initiatives once again waned in the Middle East. Last week Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin set out to correct that. He flew to Cairo for an eight-day, fanfare-ridden series of talks and tours in the land of the pyramids...
...visit was pointedly overdue. The last ranking Russian to visit Cairo was Khrushchev himself, shortly before his ouster. Nikita had bounced around like a regular fellah, shaking hands and cracking jokes, and returned to Moscow to report to his colleagues that he had made a new aid commitment to Nasser without consulting them. It was one of the items that filled the dossier on rule by personal whim and caprice with which they denounced and demoted him. The new leadership refused to honor Nikita's check to Nasser...
Soviet penury in the area was soon repaid with poor political performance. A trend to the right set in. Nasser began mending his fences with the U.S. A moderate Prime Minister, Abdel Rahman Bazzaz, took over in Iraq. Yemen's little war cooled off, and even in steaming Syria the moderate wing of the socialist Baath Party seized the initiative from the extremists. So Moscow's new men, concluding that Nikita might not have been all wrong, have started the rubles flowing again...
...tank battalions. Iraq was promised an atomic reactor, given three squadrons of MIG-21s. Syria got a Soviet pledge of $150 million for a start on a Euphrates River dam that could prove even larger than Aswan, plus Soviet aid in rebuilding its railways and prospecting for Syrian oil. Nasser himself received four MIG squadrons, six submarines and a school of destroyers...
...positions hardened on both sides, the U.S.'s Raymond A. Hare, Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East and South Asia, flew in for talks with both Feisal and Nasser. In the Saudi capital of Riyadh, Hare urged Feisal to cut off Royalist aid and give Nasser a chance to pull back without losing face. Feisal seemed willing-if he could be sure of Nasser. In Alexandria, Nasser refused, even though by doing so his country risks losing part or all of a new $150 million U.S. food-distribution program, and another $100 million worth of industrial-development...