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...Soviet-U.S. confrontation. Last week Secretary of State, William Rogers flew into Cairo to make a first-hand assessment of Nasser's successor. Rogers was also interested in exploring one of Sadat's latest initiatives: a proposal for an agreement between Egypt and Israel on reopening the Suez Canal...
...four months to put Israel on the diplomatic defensive. First, in a major shift in Arab policy, he announced his willingness to recognize Israel's right to exist in return for the restoration of captured territory. Next, he offered a kind of mini-peace on the issue of the Suez Canal as a way of getting that waterway into operation again and, more important, of getting Israeli troops off its east bank...
...last week in Israel. There were certain dangers implicit in the tour. Simply by winging about the area in a great blue and white presidential 707, Rogers raised hopes that he would break the diplomatic logjam. If there is no progress?either on the Suez plan or the broader issue of an overall Arab-Israeli settlement?the U.S. can expect some harsh criticism. Rogers only fueled that feeling when he said last week: "There has never been, and may not again be for a long time to come, a better opportunity than exists today to move toward a just...
...Sadat's Suez plan calls for the Israelis to withdraw from their fortified Bar-Lev Line to new positions farther back in the desert along a line from just east of the Mediterranean coastal town of El Arish to Ras Mohammed, at the extreme southern tip of the Sinai peninsula just west of Sharm el Sheikh (see map). Once the withdrawal had been accomplished, Egyptians would occupy the area and begin the laborious business of clearing the waterway (see box, page...
...Line would be to an area from which they could see or hear Egyptian or Russian troops crossing the canal in strength. Israel indicated last week that it would also oppose the rebuilding of bridges over the canal. Moreover, Israel insisted that it would consider a Suez settlement as a separate agreement, and not the beginning of any wholesale Israeli withdrawal from other occupied territories?the rest of Sinai, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank of the Jordan River, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. More than that, Israel demanded ironbound guarantees from the U.S. that if there were...