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...Cairo, meanwhile, the Arab League met again to discuss the Pan-Arab peace-keeping force, which should eventually number 6,000, and voted it a budget of $12 million for the next six months. The Arab League Secretary-General, Mahmoud Riad of Egypt, said that he had ordered a Sudanese contingent to go directly to Beirut and that Somali and Saudi Arabian units would be arriving shortly in Lebanon...
Obviously the restlessness would not be satisfied by anything so illusory as a Cabinet shift. A few days before his speech, Sadat had pushed aside such eminent old guardsmen as Premier Mahmoud Fawzi, 71, who took the honorific post of vice president, and Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad, 55, who was named a foreign affairs adviser. The incoming Cabinet is composed of bright young technocrats with few ties back to Nasser and little political strength of their own. "Some are pro-this and some are pro-that," said an Israeli scrutinizing the list of new appointees. "The only thing that makes...
...called 1971, was fading into its final hours, and he still had not carried out the threatened military moves to recover captured Egyptian territory. More likely, though, Sadat was occupied with Egypt's frustrations in the unproductive diplomatic negotiations for peace. In the latest round, Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad traveled to the United Nations to seek a General Assembly censure of Israel for aborting the U.N. peace mission of Swedish Diplomat Gunnar Jarring. In the anti-Israel Assembly, Riad obtained an expectable vote (79-7 with 36 abstentions). But the world publicity that Egypt had hoped for disappeared behind...
Continued Riad: "Mr. Rogers has said Israel should withdraw. He has said that the U.S. would use all its influence to see U.N. Resolution 242 implemented and the U.S.'s own plan implemented. When you hear these words from a big power-that it will use its influence-well, it's something that has big meaning. That is why we agreed to the U.S.'s playing a role. But if it turns out that the role is no more than that of a small power like Nicaragua or Costa Rica or Malawi, what's the point...
...Small Incident. Riad assured Scott that in spite of Sadat's fiery statements, Egypt is not intent on war. He said, "When you hear from us that there will be no more discussion at the United Nations and that we refuse Resolution 242 [calling on Israel to withdraw from occupied territories in exchange for secure and agreed borders]. then you can say that Egypt is ready to fight...