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...Sinai Peninsula and commanding the passage to the Gulf of Aqaba, Sharm el Sheikh is sand-blown, sunbaked and heavy with symbolism and strategic significance. It played a major part in the events leading to the Six-Day War. At that time, Gamal Abdel Nasser threatened that Egyptian artillery at Sharm el Sheikh would sink any ship that ventured into the narrow Straits of Tiran en route to the Israeli port of Eilat, 130 miles to the north, which handles all of Israel's oil imports. Soon afterward, Israeli paratroopers and amphibious forces captured the fortifications...
Actually, however, Sadat appears more interested in peace than war; it was Sadat, after all, who went a long step beyond his predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser, by assuring Jarring that Egypt is finally willing to recognize Israel's sovereignty. The Israelis doubt his sincerity, and they could be right. But so far Sadat has gone out of his way to give the impression that he is less intent on fighting than on solving Egypt's massive domestic problems. By word and gesture, he has set out to shift Egypt's mood from belligerent pan-Arabism to constructive...
...Egypt, U.S. Diplomat Donald Bergus is officially listed as "Head of the U.S. Interests Section, Spanish Embassy," because the late Gamal Abdel Nasser broke off formal relations with Washington during the Six-Day War. But Bergus' contacts with top Egyptian officials have been so frequent and so cozy in recent months that the only remaining step would be formal renewal of relations. One reason for the new atmosphere is Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's impressive flexibility and reasonableness in dealing with Israel...
...Egyptian armed forces during the disastrous 1956 Sinai defeat at the hands of Israel; of a heart attack; in Alexandria, Egypt. Despite that debacle, during which Israeli troops routed his forces on the desert peninsula in less than a week, Amer remained in favor with Egypt's President Nasser, was named chief of staff in 1959, and head of the Arab unified military command in 1964, a position he retained until his retirement in 1968, after...
...themselves that would undoubtedly require concessions from both sides, the Arabs have been hoping that the U.N. and the Big Four powers would force the Israelis to give up the territories. Sadat, who is not yet strong enough to make the sort of concessions that his predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser, might have gotten away with, talked tough up to the last minute. Repeatedly, he threatened to renew the war unless Israel produced a timetable for its withdrawal from the territories...