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...assurances that Israel was willing to talk peace, although possibly not in the "hotel talks" that the Administration envisions. The State Department has proposed that Egypt and Israel each designate envoys and that Sisco shuttle between their rooms at some New York hotel seeking grounds for accommodation on the Suez Canal...
Faithful readers who have already followed Supermac through three volumes of adventures will find him this time at the peak of his powers. The U.S. has let Britain down at Suez. Anthony Eden has quit. But Harold, as Her Majesty's Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, moves in to rebuild the Anglo-American alliance on the basis of his old friendship with Dwight Eisenhower. He also pilots the ship of state through the storms of crisis in Lebanon, an incipient trade war in Europe, a Gaullist coup in France. Soviet ultimatums about Berlin, and assorted parliamentary...
...Egyptian President Anwar Sadat recently told a visiting diplomat, "but it's crisis No. 1 to me." Last week Sadat was doing his best to make it crisis No. 1 for the rest of the world as well. Wearing a khaki uniform, he viewed sandbagged positions along the Suez Canal and delivered bellicose pep talks to the troops. "I have come to tell you," Sadat said, "that the time to fight has come, that there is no more hope. Our next meeting will be in Sinai...
Before they do, though, one small incident could occur that might get out of hand. Significantly, Israel has already dropped warning hints that if Egypt attempts to resume even limited warfare in the Suez Canal Zone, its troops will retaliate in full force. There will not be another war of attrition, the Israelis insist, but an all-out conflict. And then problem No. 5 would again become everybody's crisis...
Tale out of School. During the Six-Day War, the book reveals, Dayan wanted the advancing Israeli forces to halt at the Mitla Pass or at Jidi in the Sinai. He opposed their going as far as the Suez Canal because, he argued, the waterway was essential to Egyptian prestige, and the war could never truly end with Israeli forces dug in on its bank. The army, however, reached the banks of the canal before Dayan's orders could effectively stop it. During the 1969-70 "war of attrition," he often visited the Israeli fortifications on the canal, which...