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...Macmillan sticks with the official version that Britain and France landed troops only to separate Israeli and Egyptian combatants. No such inhibitions, however, apply to Macmillan's version of the U.S. role at Suez. John Foster Dulles comes off in this book almost as badly as Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...protestations. Sadat, by having repeatedly proclaimed 1971 as Egypt's "year of decision" against Israel, and now by telling the army that the time to fight has come, is painting himself into a corner. Using another image, an old U.N. hand last week put it thus: "Sadat, like Nasser before him, has developed a habit of hanging himself on a hook and then pleading with the major powers...
...prematurely silver-haired, courtly and softspoken, was chief of operations during the Six-Day War, and later reshaped the Israeli army for the static "war of attrition" proclaimed by Egypt's late President Gamal Abdel Nasser in March 1969. Bar-Lev had his answer ready: a 100-mile line of forts, dug into the Suez sand, which weathered massive artillery assaults until the two sides agreed on a cease-fire last year. Meanwhile Elazar, also a monumentally calm commander, was backing up his chief by subduing the Arab fedayeen in the occupied territories...
...President Anwar Sadat, whom he does not trust. Rather, he told Levin, it will emerge because of the new generation in Egypt. "There are many Egyptian youths who have finished university. There are some among them who care for their people. There will be peace because they understand what Nasser understood in the last year of his life-that the main problem of Egypt is not how to destroy Israel but how to improve the condition of its own peasants...
...given money lavishly to the other nations, drawing on Libyan oil revenues, which now reach $2 billion annually. What Gaddafi got for his money is still uncertain. The last union between Egypt and Syria, which lasted from 1958 to 1961, ended unhappily because Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser dominated it. Even Arabs doubt, therefore, that the new union will ever become absolute...