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...weeks, Israel has held a cursory discussion with United Nations Mediator Gunnar Jarring. Allon asked the King whether Jordan might be interested in carrying on peace talks with Israel, either through Jarring or directly. Hussein acknowledged that conditions have changed since the death of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, and that his throne is stronger as a result of Jordan's civil war. But he held that the time was not ripe for unilateral discussions. Even so, one result of the border meeting is that broader negotiations with Representatives of other Arab states can be expected to follow...
...criticized the late Abdul Gamal Nasser for "uniting the Arab world on the basis of Israeli's non-legitimacy." Nasser, he said, encouraged Arab nations "to live with a fantasy...
...such an arrangement. Both are under pressure from their war-weary people to keep the guns silent. In the face of rising prices for meat, rice and vegetables, inadequate transportation and telephone service, and a nagging water shortage in Cairo, Egyptians are beginning to grumble audibly-and Gamal Abdel Nasser is no longer around to hush them. Few are eager to resume the war with Israel. But President Anwar Sadat, who took over last month after Nasser's death, is also aware that significant numbers of his constituents-most notably the armed forces-are becoming increasingly desperate about recovering...
...Alexandria, but more moderate elements in Sadat's government prevailed on the President to cancel them. In addition, night lights on the Nile River bridges were turned on for the first time since January, when Israel launched the first of its deep-penetration air-raids in response to Nasser's "war of attrition...
Riad was unyielding. Publicly, he has denied that Egypt has violated the ceasefire. To Rogers he explained that Nasser's successor must cope with forces in Egypt that are not particularly anxious to continue the cease-fire with Israel beyond its Nov. 5 expiration date...