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...Sadat would find some formula to set back in motion Kissinger's step-by-step talks between Cairo and Jerusalem. Any final decision on such a move would have to wait until next week, however, when Ford returns to Washington and meets Israel's Premier Yitzhak Rabin for another two days of talks. Whatever the outcome of Ford's delicate negotiations, two things are clear...
Arab Spokesman. To preserve his political position both internally and with his fellow Arab leaders, Sadat is barring passage to vessels flying the Israeli flag. Some time between the canal's reopening and next week's Ford-Rabin talks, however, the Israelis might attempt to send through a ship flying another country's flag but carrying Israeli cargo. Despite official Egyptian pronouncements to the contrary, Sadat has quietly ordered canal authorities to let such nonstrategic cargo through...
...Sadat's game is the only one in town right now." Despite the Israelis' understandable qualms about Sadat, the time may be at hand for Israel-and Egypt as well-to take certain risks: mostly political on Sadat's part, military as well as political on Rabin's. Unless there is some movement, there is a growing danger that the name of the game in the Middle East will once again...
...Geneva peace talks be reconvened. To ease Arab apprehensions in advance of the meeting, Ford said last week that he would "in effect rule out" the use of military force in the event of another Arab oil embargo. The President will meet later in June with Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin in Washington...
Normally, such a pro-Palestinian move would anger Israel, but Jerusalem largely ignored it. Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government was relieved that Kissinger and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had agreed at their Vienna meeting to delay any reconvening of the Geneva talks until autumn. One Foreign Ministry spokesman said: "This will relieve the pressure and allow a politically useful and militarily quiet summer...