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Super Dilemma. The domestic ramifications of the situation are not lost on the Arabs. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott in Cairo last week, Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad, a shrewd and seasoned diplomat, professed to be confused. "It is something we cannot understand-how a superpower wild certain responsibilities about peace in the world can be affected by some votes in an election. We don't understand how it is commonly accepted that the Jews are a community completely separate from other Americans, as if their loyalty is to Israel rather than to their own country...
...Riad also wondered why a superpower like the U.S. should have any difficulty at all telling Israel precisely how to behave. "I recall what Dean Rusk said to me in 1968," Riad told Scott, "when I asked him about the U.S. position on withdrawal by Israel. He said, 'There is no doubt that we don't want any country to annex territory of another country. This is our policy, so the Israelis should no doubt withdraw from your land.' I replied, 'Why, then, don't you make a public statement? That...
...Jerusalem are all but daring him to try something. Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers is pressing his effort for an interim agreement that would reopen the Suez Canal and lead toward broader peace talks. While the Suez negotiations have got nowhere, both Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad and Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban have told Rogers, during meetings at his suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, that their governments want the talks to continue...
...left to the U.N.'s most mellifluous spokesman to lift the tone of the conversation. Israel's Abba Eban suggested that he and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad meet on the stalemated Suez Canal issue. Such a confrontation is not likely, but the offer gave Eban a chance to criticize and praise the U.N. in its 26th year. Eban lamented that "in the work of the U.N. there is a strong accent on public controversy and a relative neglect of private conciliation." But he also noted that "this organization, for all its imperfection, is the only organized expression...
...Israelis, who have never seen such a memorandum, much less agreed to such terms, were furious. Quickly, the State Department explained that the memo was not official. What had happened, it said, was that Donald Bergus, Washington's provisional representative in Cairo, had offered Riad his own "informal and personal" suggestion for a Suez plan. "He certainly stepped off the reservation," said one official, "but we're not going to disown him. He's a capable man with excellent contacts...