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Much of the reporting from the Arab camp for this week's cover story was done by TIME'S Beirut bureau chief, Lee Griggs, who during the past year has had long interviews with Egypt's President Nasser, Jordan's King Hussein, Saudi Arabia's King Feisal and the Shah of Iran. Working out of Beirut, Griggs was able to cover the week's events in Jordan and Syria. "The main trouble is knowing whom to believe," says Griggs. "Everyone has an angle and facts are relative at best. Fortunately, after nearly three years...
...inflamed rhetoric emanating from Mideast capitals heightened the air of unreality that had cloaked the impasse from the outset. "There is no going back," cried the United Arab Republic's Gamal Abdel Nasser. "War is inevitable," echoed the editor of his tame newspaper, Al Ahram. Israel, warned Foreign Minister Abba Eban, "is like a coiled spring," and could only consider Nasser's blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba as a direct threat to "the kind of national interest for which a nation stakes all that...
Second Thoughts. Nevertheless, there was hope that-barring miscalculation -the crisis would not pass from the shouting stage to the shooting stage for a while. Nasser has achieved what he set out to win. He has mended his shredded prestige among fellow Arabs, forced Jordan's King Hussein into a humiliating acknowledgment of his strength, and successfully challenged the Israelis-so far. In fact, Cairo's-and the world's-greatest fear is that he will be unable to restrain his more volatile allies, notably Syria and the fanatic Palestine Liberation Organization...
...Russians, having helped egg Nasser on by publicly condemning the Israelis, may now be having second thoughts. In a note to Lyndon Johnson, Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin is reported to have urged backstage action by the superpowers to damp down the situation...
What may be giving the Russians pause is the fact that their support of Nasser's closing the Tiran Strait could backfire on them. The Turks, for example, might some day close the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, or the Scandinavians seal off the Baltic by blockading the Skagerrak and the Strait of Kattegat. Further, after implicitly endorsing Nasser's denial of the freedom of navigation, the Russians found themselves in the position of protesting that the U.S. had been guilty of the very same thing. Complaining that American planes had bombed a Russian ship berthed in a North...