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...eternal capital") and the Golan Heights. He is thus closer than his successors in Israel's government to the six-point settlement that U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers outlined last week at the U.N. Rogers urged Israel to withdraw from the east bank of the Suez Canal in exchange for an Egyptian pledge of unrestricted passage for Israeli ships...
...left to the U.N.'s most mellifluous spokesman to lift the tone of the conversation. Israel's Abba Eban suggested that he and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad meet on the stalemated Suez Canal issue. Such a confrontation is not likely, but the offer gave Eban a chance to criticize and praise the U.N. in its 26th year. Eban lamented that "in the work of the U.N. there is a strong accent on public controversy and a relative neglect of private conciliation." But he also noted that "this organization, for all its imperfection, is the only organized expression...
...ride a camel while visiting the pyramids at Giza, reported that his hosts were "in a mood for permanent peace." Sir Alec had hardly spoken, however, when Egypt and Israel started shooting at each other in the most serious exchange since a fragile cease-fire was arranged along the Suez Canal 13 months...
...promisingly seedy setting for John Osborne's latest play, which opened last week to culminate the London summer season. The locale and title are West of Suez-a former British outpost in the Caribbean, now underrun by surly native administrators and overrun by American tourists. Four English sisters, their spouses and assorted hangers-on have gathered at a villa for a holiday with the sisters' father, an aging, eminent writer (Ralph Richardson). The whole crowd is psychologically on the lam, morally lying low, parceling out a diminishing stock of options while they keep a furtive lookout for some...
...pointless to worry about whether Suez is a shapely and coherent play. It isn't. Useless characters clutter the stage, scenes balloon or shrink out of proportion, and at the final curtain the plot snaps shut arbitrarily as native soldiers run onstage shooting. Osborne's anger still glints and cuts, but it cannot draw blood from such straw men as critics, in-laws and American tourists...