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...Concession. One point tentatively agreed on by Israel and Egypt but not set down specifically was the ending of a blockade of the Red Sea at Bab el Mandeb. Officially, the Egyptians deny that any such blockade exists. In fact, Egyptian ships have been patrolling the strait, mines have been laid there, and a small fleet of merchantmen is tied up in the Israeli port of Eilat as a result. The blockade was the cause of a fiery meeting of the Israeli Cabinet last week. After accepting Kissinger's terms, the Cabinet had second thoughts about the nonmention...
Across the Formosa Strait on Taiwan, the Nationalist regime has made a point of preserving the Peking-opera heritage. After appropriating $400,000, the regime dispatched a 73-member troupe to the U.S. to present the operatic form to more than 30 cities in a 3½-month tour (see color pages). After opening last month in Honolulu, the troupe played Los Angeles and San Francisco last week, and by November will have reached Chicago, Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., and Vancouver. If the tour ends as well as it started, it will be a major step toward American acceptance...
Extending Influence. The Shah is also spending heavily on military installations. He plans to expand the five-year-old naval and air force base at Bandar Abbas, which overlooks the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the gulf. A new, even bigger base for the two services is planned for Chah Bahar, close to the Pakistan border on the Gulf of Oman, extending Iranian influence into the Indian Ocean. A complex to handle a helicopter force of 10,000 men is to be built at Isfahan, in the interior. In addition, a vast communications network and automated logistics system...
...Iranian border guards are common. Russia (along with China) has supplied weapons to guerrillas trying to overthrow Sultan Qabus of Oman. If these rebels were successful, they could bottleneck the gulf by sinking a supertanker in the narrow channel that is now negotiated by 100 ships in the Strait of Hormuz each day. The short-range Soviet aim seems to be to keep the U.S. on edge by disrupting the calm of the gulf. But there is a long-range possibility that, by adroit maneuvering through middlemen, Russia could cut off oil supplies to the West...
...than generally believed, but that they may well have coexisted with-and perhaps were even hunted by-the early Americans who are believed to have crossed over from Asia at least 12,000 years ago via the land bridge that once existed at the site of the present Bering Strait...