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...kind of good-will offering, Sadat agreed to upgrade diplomatic relations between Cairo and Washington. It was a significant move, since the Egyptians acknowledged that the U.S. was still supplying arms and equipment to Israel. Relations between the U.S. and Egypt had been broken off early in the Six-Day War of 1967 by Sadat's predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser. He charged-wrongly, as it turned out-that planes from U.S. aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean had helped Israeli jets attack Egypt at the start of the war. Since then, U.S. interests in Egypt have been represented by Spain...
...sporting metaphor to explain the Russian view. "In a boxing match," he said, "each side has its second. There have to be two seconds, not one working with both sides." The Soviets were hampered by the fact that they have had no diplomatic relations with Israel since the Six-Day War. Thus they were unable to emulate Kissinger and enhance their prestige in the Middle East by working both corners...
...hands of the Philistines. Last week an Israeli announcer solemnly intoned those mournful lines before announcing that 1,854 of his countrymen had died in the Yom Kippur War. Although Israelis were prepared for high casualty figures, the magnitude of the toll compared with the 803 fatalities of the Six-Day War nonetheless stunned them. Nearly every household in the nation of 3,200,000 has suffered or knows a loss in the war. Said Yehezkel Shemesh, a Jerusalem restaurant owner: "We are all one mishpocheh [family]. When one boy dies, we all grieve together." Last Wednesday morning weeping mourners...
...mercy mission, the role of the peacekeeping force was uncertain. It faced unfortunately some of the same handicaps as did a similar force that attempted to keep the peace in Gaza and Sinai before Gamal Abdel Nasser ordered it out in May 1967, thus paving the way for the Six-Day...
...under way. Israel seeks the return of 440 men listed as missing in action, most of them on the Sinai front. To recover them Israel is willing to send back some 8,000 Arab prisoners, most of them Egyptian-at least 2,500 more than it held after the Six-Day...