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...speech President Anwar Sadat made before Egyptian students last week, that seemed unlikely. Nonetheless, as Jews began celebrating the annual Passover festival, which commemorates the flight of the Hebrews from Egypt some 3,000 years ago, Israelis were taking no chances that the Syrians would follow up the Yom Kippur War with a Passover war. Israeli forces were put on high alert. In line with what a military spokesman termed "a no-risk policy," grape juice was substituted for the obligatory Seder wine in front-line areas...
There is also pressure on Israel to keep Kissinger's negotiating cycle going. Mrs. Meir admitted that "the Yom Kippur War must leave its mark on our concepts, our actions, our way of life in every sphere." Underscoring her point, the government distributed a booklet, The Fallen and the Missing in the Yom Kippur War, containing the names of all 2,552 Israeli soldiers killed in action in October; the first 350,000 copies printed were quickly gone, and 150,000 more ordered. And in the Knesset, Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir set a price tag of $7.14 billion...
...deep source of friction, accentuated by the Yom Kippur War and the Middle East oil cutback, is Europe's relationship to the U.S. Is Europe, as most of its governments desire, to retain close economic, political and defense ties with Washington? Or, as the French maintain, must the Continent largely ignore U.S. interests? The French sometimes frame the choice in the context of continued hope for a united Europe. Said Premier Pierre Messmer: "Europe is not moribund." However, calling for "an extension of European cooperation, which we sincerely wish," he added that "it makes sense only in the affirmation...
...Arabs imposed the oil embargo on South Africa partly in order to win favor with Black African nations that detest South Africa's apartheid policies, partly because they were angered by the fact that South Africa permitted its Jewish citizens to send money to Israel during the Yom Kippur War. The direct effect of the embargo has been minimal. Endowed by nature with rich coal deposits, South Africa derives only 20% of its energy from oil, v. 46% for the U.S. Even so, it thoughtfully stockpiled oil in advance. Buried deep in otherwise unused Transvaal coal mines...
...wonder that Egyptians now refer to Henry Kissinger as "the American magician." On his fourth whirlwind visit to the Middle East since October, the U.S. Secretary of State last week managed to 1) deliver to Israel a list of prisoners held by the Syrians since the end of the Yom Kippur War; 2) persuade the Israelis to offer Syria preliminary proposals for disengagement on the Golan Heights; 3) restore formal diplomatic relations between Egypt and the U.S., which were broken off in the 1967 Six Day War. Shuttle diplomacy, it seems, is still working...