Word: pullbacks
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...territory by Israeli forces. The way for Sisco's trip was paved by an assurance given by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to Don Bergus, the senior U.S. diplomat in Cairo, that Egypt was still interested in achieving an interim settlement-providing it led to an eventual Israeli pullback from all Arab territory-and was still amenable to having the U.S. serve as a mediator...
...Israeli Pullback. During his visit, Rogers is likely to concentrate on trying to find a solution to what currently appears to be the least baffling issue between Israel and Egypt: the reopening of the Suez Canal, which has been closed since the Six-Day War. Sadat has proposed that Israeli troops pull back from the canal as the first phase in the general Israeli withdrawal called for by the U.N. and that Egyptian troops take up positions on the east bank. In return, Egypt would agree to a formal renewal of the Suez ceasefire, which expired March...
...second danger-"isolationism"-it seems highly improbable. We have been over-invested, over-committed, overextended in parts of the world, and particularly in East Asia, over the past twenty years. But disinvestment in one area, and indeed, pullback in Asia, cannot in this day and age mean anything like what those who grew up in the twenties and thirties so much fear. We are simply too globally involved, through communications, technology, trade, travel, economic investment, diplomacy, and our special status as a nuclear power, to return to anything resembling the dream of Fortress America...
Trends. Still, with 554,200 troops remaining in Asia, the U.S. pullback is hardly a full recessional-and was not intended to be. The fundamental objective of Nixon's plan is to provide a guardrail that will keep the U.S. from being pulled overboard into another Viet Nam-type involvement, yet still protect U.S. allies, and U.S. interests, in Asia. There is doubt that the guardrail would hold in a crisis, but the policy is nonetheless becoming an important reality in Asia. Among the trends accelerating as a result of the Nixon Doctrine...
...ostensible reason is that Egypt's Russian-designed missile network is now strong enough to guard against any new Israeli incursions into Egyptian airspace. The real reason for the pullback, say some intelligence sources, is that the Kremlin is worried about the viability of the new government of President Anwar Sadat and is taking steps to protect it-and also to protect Moscow's massive investment in Egypt...