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Last week Israel formally handed over control of the oilfield to Indonesian officers of the United Nations Emergency Force. Two days after the Israeli pullout, Egypt formally took possession again. Within hours a tanker had been loaded and was under way with a cargo of the first oil from the lost fields of the Sinai to head for Suez in eight years. TIME'S Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn was at Ras Sudr when the oil to Egypt started flowing. His report...
Riccardo's ultimatum has now presented Wilson with what one government official calls "an agonizing dilemma." A Chrysler pullout would wipe out not only 25,000 jobs in the company's own plants but perhaps 60,000 more in related industries. Workers are threatening to take over the plants if Chrysler goes home. A shutdown of the 7,000-worker factory in Lin wood, Scotland, might fan the flames of Scottish nationalism. And the Shah of Iran has ordered 126,000 Hunters in kit form; Wilson is not eager to anger one of Britain's principal suppliers...
...kept alive. Practically speaking, however, the U.N. troops could not remain in place if one side demanded their ouster. If they were forced out by Egypt, the situation could be ominous-and there is a disturbing precedent. In May 1967, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser demanded a similar pullout of U.N. forces for their own safety in the face of "Israeli aggression" and Egyptian defensive moves. The late Secretary-General U Thant complied. Eighteen days later, the Six-Day War erupted. The Israelis were betting that Cairo would back down, partly because of fail-safe ambiguities in Fahmy...
...along that Israel must completely withdraw from the Mitla and Giddi passes (see map), the most strategic points on the peninsula. Israel has similarly insisted, for internal politics as much as for anything else, that its defense requires a military presence in the passes. Jerusalem suggested a partial pullout and electronic surveillance on either side, a proposal Sadat rejected. The agreement being hammered out last week would allow Israeli troops to remain in brigade strength on the eastern rim of the passes; thus both sides could argue that their conditions had been met. At issue was where on the slopes...
...startling pullout by South Vietnamese troops from the northern provinces and the Central Highlands took the world by surprise, and foreign journalists stationed in the country were no exception. Actually, President Nguyen Van Thieu acted with such secrecy that even his Joint General Staff did not know of his decision to abandon the provinces until they read about it in a Saigon newspaper. To find out what was happening, journalistic improvisation was in order...