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Mission to Paris. The Communist arms deal with Egypt was a large and astute coup for the Russians, in effect enabling them to leapfrog the northern-tier defense (Turkey, Iraq, Iran) just set up by the West. It promised to be an embarrassment to the West, but to neighboring Israel it threatened to be a disaster. Israel's Pre mier Moshe Sharett rushed to Paris and then to Geneva to try to get help from the Western foreign ministers. He told them that his people were so wrought up over the Egyptian deal that they were seriously thinking...
...months since the U.S. Secretary of State made this statement, allied diplomats have worked to turn a vague desire into a concrete fact. Their first reward came in February, when Turkey and Iraq signed a mutual-defense pact in Baghdad. Britain, representing Cyprus, joined in April, Pakistan in July. Last week Iran signed up, and the "Northern Tier" became one of the important realities of international politics...
...finding: better than average quality, the same type as in Iraq's big fields. When the drill casings were pulled off, the gusher spurted 60 feet into the air. The whole nation rejoiced over the discovery. Israelis hugged each other in city streets...
Last week's strike climaxed 18 months' drilling by the Lapidot Oil Co., part-Israeli, part-U.S. The company spudded in, ironically, almost precisely where the British-owned Iraq Petroleum Co. abandoned a test drilling in 1947 after going down 3,500 ft. The strike promised a major oil field, sufficient at least to save Israel $50 million* in oil imports a year, weaken the Arab states' blockade and diminish the country's dependence on the West. For the first time since their state was established, Israelis now saw the means to economic independence...
Leave of Absence. In time, Salem also became Nasser's propaganda minister. The dancing major insisted on calling his own tune, and as a result, he was in fairly constant trouble with his boss. Once on a diplomatic visit to Iraq, Salem impulsively waved aside all Egyptian objections to a pact between Iraq and its neighbors, Syria and Jordan. Egypt's closest ally, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, promptly raised a howl of protest, and Nasser hastily sent Salem off on a "leave of absence." He flew into a fit of temperament that only his older brother, Wing...