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...week the State Department kept a nervous eye on the teleprinters as messages clacked in from U.S. outposts in the tense Middle East. State was braced for the possibility that Russia's Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov (see FOREIGN NEWS) would offer to sell Egypt arms, would offer Egypt a $1.3 billion loan-or a blank check-to build the Aswan High Dam, that Egypt's Premier Nasser would find it hard to turn down such easy and astronomical money (roughly half of Egypt's gross national product). State was concerned likewise that neighboring Israel might be fanning...
...parade of military power, a burly, heavy-faced man in a white suit smiled contentedly and ran a comb through his mop of greying hair. Frozen-Faced Molotov's successor as Soviet Foreign Minister proved a man of many mobile impressions (see cuts). A year ago Dmitry Shepilov came to Cairo as editor of Pravda; a few months later came Nasser's arms deal with the Communists, which set Nasser up in business as a man no longer dependent on the West alone. Now, as Foreign Minister, Shepilov was, back to inspect his handiwork. This time he also...
...Egyptians appeared to be of two minds about the beaming Shepilov, a past master at public relations who even managed to get himself photographed tossing one of Nasser's young sons in the air. They seemed a trifle annoyed at the enthusiastic applause he got from ordinary citizens, a trifle embarrassed to find him the only Foreign Minister present-when they invited him, he was still only Pravda's editor. But Nasser himself found time in the week's hectic schedule to spend long hours with him in earnest talk. As the talks went on, Western embassies...
...leaked reports hinted at a Shepilov offer to supply the whole amount, on terms variously reported as 3%, 2%, or no interest at all. "He gave us a magic lamp, and invited Nasser to rub it and make a wish," said one awed Nasser aide...
...final communique was full of talk of mutual regard, but the dam was not mentioned. Suspicion is that Nasser recognizes that acceptance of a Russian loan would give Soviet Russia a decisive and unwelcome voice in Egypt's economy, but is not above trying to use Shepilov to pressure...