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...Your Sons is a provocative document, especially when read during the current decline of confidence in governmental ethics. The book's publication coincides with renewed activity to convince the public that the Rosenbergs were innocent victims of a frame-up. Chapters of the National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case have sprung up round the country. Invoking the Freedom of Information Act, the Meeropols themselves have formally requested a number of Government agencies to unlock the Rosenberg files. The case seems due for one of its periodic flare...
...unusually uncomfortable position of being on the diplomatic defensive. In the hiatus that followed the breakdown of peace talks with Egypt, Anwar Sadat had neatly seized the initiative. Egypt's President announced that-even without a further withdrawal of Israeli forces in the Sinai-he would reopen the Suez Canal on June 5. Then Sadat agreed unilaterally to an extension of the peace-keeping mandate of 4,000 blue-helmeted United Nations troops, which was due to expire April 24. He also made public the release of the bodies of 39 Israelis killed during the October...
...what some Israeli officials referred to as a "diplomatic pre-emptive strike," Sadat announced that despite Kissinger's failure, Egypt would reopen the Suez Canal to foreign shipping on June 5, the eighth anniversary of its closing during the 1967 war. Sadat's declaration drew a cool response from the Israelis. "It means nothing to Israel," snapped Premier Yitzhak Rabin, since the Egyptian leader declared that Israeli cargoes could not be transported, even in ships of neutral nations, through the reopened waterway...
Sadat interpreted the negotiations as primarily involving a second-stage military disentanglement. He wanted major pullbacks of Israeli forces in the Sinai, which would allow Egypt to reopen the Suez Canal. Israel was willing to withdraw from the strategic Giddi and Mitla passes in the Sinai (see map page 14) and also from the Abu Rudeis oilfields, which have been pumping Egyptian oil for Israel since they were captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. In return, however...
...said he did not believe he had the constitutional power to grant blanket amnesty to the rebels-especially since one of the guards had already died in the hospital after his skull was fractured at the beginning of the riot. In Rockefeller's action-a euphemistic order to "reopen the institution"-Wicker sees a man not "callous and careless of human life," but one dedicated to maintaining "the order of things...