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...month to tighten relations with conservative King Feisal, enlist his aid in oil diplomacy, and persuade him to part with sizable financial aid for Egypt. Sadat also began seeking closer relations with Syria and with the oil-rich Gulf states; he visited Damascus and Qatar and met with the ruler of Kuwait in Cairo...
...Thieu a chance to consolidate his military and political position. Instead of keeping Cambodia nonCommunist, the American incursion helped catalyze the minuscule pro-Communist Khmer Rouge guerrillas into a movement of na tional scope. It pushed Prince Norodom Sihanouk, a dedicated neutralist who was overthrown as Cambodia's ruler in spring 1970, reluctantly into the hands of Hanoi and Peking...
...Administration justified the secrecy on the grounds that the bombing had been approved by Prince Sihanouk, the Cambodian ruler at the time, who was then having to live with North Vietnamese troops inside his country, and that the U.S. had not wanted to force him into having to protest the bombing. But the secrecy outraged a number of Congressmen. Iowa Senator Harold Hughes called it "a deliberate attempt by the Administration to conceal the bombing because they were afraid of public reaction," and Senator Stuart Symington charged the Administration with spending $145 million-which he calculated as the cost...
...interior. In addition, a vast communications network and automated logistics system for the armed forces is under study. "It sounds as though your ambition is for Iran to become the strongest country in the area," a U.S. newsman told the Shah in Washington. "It is not an ambition," the ruler replied with a smile. "It is inevitable...
...cabled Sadat saying that he had resigned as of July 11 as chairman of Libya's ruling Revolutionary Command Council-in effect disclaiming all responsibility for the marchers. His action did not necessarily mean Gaddafi was out as Libya's ruler, since he has offered his resignation several times in the past, but the council has refused to let him quit...