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There is real concern in Egypt and Israel alike that unless some progress is made on the Suez plan, fighting may break out again by September. That is when the summer heat begins to abate. It is also when the three-nation Arab federation is scheduled to come into existence, and at least one of the founders, Libya's mercurial Gaddafi, will be putting pressure on Sadat to take some action against Israel. Sadat told Rogers that if there are no results by September, he anticipates tremendous domestic pressure to resume fighting...
...payment for aid, Sadat could have a difficult time escaping the bear's hug. Nonetheless, he considers the newly arrived planes, tanks, guns and missiles to be essential elements in a defensive line, established with Russian advice, that runs all the way along the Egyptian side of the Suez Canal and up the Nile Valley...
...knows how many unexploded bombs and shells lie beneath the azure waters of the Suez Canal to threaten dredging operations-even if the Egyptians and Israelis should come to terms on reopening the waterway. The known obstacles, however, are relatively few: the sister passenger steamers Mecca and Ismailia, scuttled on orders of Egypt's late President Nasser at the start of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war; part of a pontoon bridge; two small tugs sunk downstream from the city of Ismailia; and the wreckage of a barge twelve miles north of Suez. The Egyptians calculate that they could reopen...
Restoring the once bustling commercial life along the western bank of the canal would be another matter. The city of Suez, once home to 268,000 people, now has 10,000. In Ismailia, nearly every building has been shattered by bombs or pocked by shell holes, and the city's 100,000 former citizens have joined 400,000 other onetime canalside residents as squatters in Cairo and Alexandria. Port Tewfik, at the southern end, needs virtually to be rebuilt. Aside from a few peasants tilling the land, the only population on the Egyptian side is military, including as many...
...Cape of Good Hope more cheaply than the smaller tankers that used to ply the canal. The Trans-Israel Pipeline now transports 19 million tons of oil a year, from Eilat to Ashkelon. Egypt, with French and Italian aid, will begin building its own $210 million pipeline from Port Suez to Alexandria this summer...