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Deputy Premier Mohammed Abdel Kader Hatem is Egypt's No. 2 man, second only to President Anwar Sadat. Last week, in an interview with TIME'S Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter and Correspondent Wilton Wynn, he talked about his country's aims and thoughts at what seemed to be the end of the fourth Middle East war. According to Hatem, Egypt was eager "for the United Nations to send an emergency force to supervise the cease-fire and withdrawal of Israeli forces. " The Soviet Union's offer to send troops to the Middle East, he added...
...kind of desert war that would have to be fought against Israel and trained the army carefully for it. That meant, for one thing, that the goal was not to occupy territory but to destroy the enemy forces. "A desert is like an ocean," an Egyptian officer told Wynn. "A navy doesn't try to occupy a big segment of the ocean; it tries to destroy the enemy fleet. The desert is a paradise for a tactical commander but hell for a logistics officer...
...Cairenes seem affected mostly by what the war has done to their observance of Ramadan-the holy month of Islam during which devout Moslems abstain totally from food, drink and tobacco from sunrise to sunset. From Cairo, TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn reports that "normally, Ramadan nights are more lively than the days. The Cairene's habit is to have an enormous 'lunch' at about 2 a.m. and go out on the town celebrating. But now, because of the war, restaurants shut at 11 p.m., as do most cabarets...
...seems to complain. Wynn reports that most of those in the capital feel that the tenacity with which Egyptian forces defended their bridgeheads in Sinai during the first dozen days of the war reinforced the new sense of pride that Cairenes have felt since the army launched its surprise attack. One Cairo citizen told Wynn: "These new taxes and prices are backbreaking. But never mind. We are no longer under the heels of the Israelis." An Egyptian businessman who frequently travels to Britain admitted: "After the 1967 war I refused to go to London. I couldn't hold...
From Wilton Wynn, with Egyptian forces in the Sinai...