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...directly with the Israelis, could do so through a third party, probably U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco. When the idea was first proposed last year, Egypt agreed but Israel held out. Secretary of State William Rogers had proposed a six-point plan for the opening of the Suez Canal to serve as a possible blueprint for the talks; Israel protested that the U.S. was acting more like an arbiter than a mediator. Last week, after lengthy discussions the Israelis finally agreed to negotiate...
Sadat went on to draw a ludicrous analogy between his bad luck and that of his predecessor ("May God rest his soul") in 1967. A month after the end of the Six-Day War, said Sadat, an Israeli armored brigade was sighted edging up to the Suez Canal in what looked like an attempt to cross it. Nasser ordered Egyptian bombers to crush the supposed attack. "Unfortunately," Sadat explained, "they were unable to spot their targets because of fog that had gathered over the whole area. The fog spoiled everything...
Even the most gullible of Egyptians found that hard to swallow; seldom if ever has the Suez had any fog in the blistering month of July, when the otherwise unrecorded incident supposedly took place. Round the capital, Sadat's TV appearance quickly became known as the "Fog Speech." Three days after it was delivered, a professor at the Ein Shams University in suburban Heliopolis sarcastically lectured at a student meeting about "fog over Egypt." Hundreds of Ein Shams' 38,000 students rapidly took part in teach-ins. Before long, protests spread across town to Cairo University, where vocal...
...perhaps the one most familiar sound in the country, and one quickly develops the conditioned reflex of silence upon hearing it: Three short beeps in quick succession: the silence: and then, "Today is Thursday, January 21, good morning, and this is the news from Menashe Harel. Today on the Suez Canal, five soldiers were killed when their jeep..." And so on: on and on. The hostilities are never distant or impersonal: the vulnerability of Israel and indeed its very lack of size is brought home hard in the realization that the names of all casualties are read over the radio...
Actually, Israel appeared to have given up one thing: obstinacy over talks with Egypt toward a reopening of the Suez Canal. The U.S. last year attempted to arbitrate such a discussion, but it was suspended after Israel objected to a U.N. speech by Secretary of State William Rogers. Rogers proposed that the Israelis withdraw some troops from the Bar-Lev Line, that a U.N. peace-keeping force be stationed in the Sinai, and that Egyptian "police" be allowed to cross the canal to the Israeli-occupied east bank...