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Israeli good will was reciprocated by Egypt: within twelve days after the west bank retirement is completed, it will draw more than 60,000 men and nearly 600 tanks out of Sinai. President Anwar Sadat undertook a five-day, eight-nation tour of the Arab world to explain the agreement. Egypt would live up to its terms fully, said Sadat to other Arab leaders. "Creating doubt does not serve our cause," he said. Significantly, Sadat credited the U.S. for playing a principal role in attaining disengagement. "For every change in the American position," he said, "it is necessary...
...week of vacillation by Heath's government. First the Energy Department raised the specter of sewage flowing in the streets as a result of power shortages (sewage pumps are electrically powered), then it announced that fuel supplies were ample enough to go back to a four-or five-day week. That possibility has now been withdrawn in the face of a strike. Then Heath was undecided whether or not to call for an immediate election. That, too, has been abandoned at least for the time being, probably because the Tories fear that they might lose. Other gloomy developments...
When French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert leaves this week on a five-day trip to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Syria, he will be pursuing an aggressive campaign of economic diplomacy that is fast making France the leading seller of arms to Third World nations. The policy is already bringing handsome dividends to his government. Currently under negotiation is an agreement with Saudi Arabia that would assure France a steady supply of Saudi oil over a 20-year period. The deal could lead eventually to the flow of more than 800,000 bbl. of Saudi oil a day-a total...
After a stolid five-day silence, the Soviet government last week lashed out at Alexander Solzhenitsyn's sensational new book, The Gulag Archipelago (TIME, Jan. 7). It called the work "an anti-Soviet lampoon sent abroad by Mr. Solzhenitsyn in the guise of a New Year gift." Far from being a lampoon, the book is a meticulously documented account of the agony of millions of innocent people who, like Solzhenitsyn himself, were imprisoned in the vast "archipelago" of slave-labor camps...
...schedule shuffling necessary to accommodate the week extension may have large numbers of exam-shocked students climbing the walls by February. The regular five-day intersession was canceled to allow second semester to begin the first week of the month, as usual...