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...flights are being scrubbed. The cancellation is not difficult to understand. Soviet freighters and air force transports have been ferrying military supplies to Egypt, including jet fighters, sophisticated anti-aircraft guns, and additional SA-2 and SA3 missiles similar to those that already ring the dam and line the Suez Canal's west bank. The suspension of flights will enable technicians to install some of this armament without observation by curious eyes...
National Responsibility. Two weeks ago, Sadat elaborated on his position by offering as a first step a plan for reopening the Suez Canal-now clogged by silt and disabled ships-after nearly four years of inactivity. Under the Sadat plan, Israeli troops would pull back from their Bar-Lev Line on the canal bank to a line in the vicinity of El Arish, a sleepy Sinai town 50 miles from Israel's 1967 border. Egyptian troops would cross the canal to take up positions and "assume national responsibility." After repairs, the canal would be open to the world...
Israeli Positions. Last week in Jerusalem, 3,000 delegates to a convention of Israel's governing Labor Party rejected Sadat's Suez proposals. They cheered a resolution calling for eventual postwar borders that would include much of the captured territory that Israel holds. The delegates rejected Washington's proposals that Israel retain only "insubstantial" portions. In the convention keynote address, Premier Golda Meir opposed pressure on Israel to agree to reopening the Suez "within the framework of an enforced political solution inspired by Egypt and the Soviet Union." Israel is, however, willing to enter talks on Suez...
...search for a Middle East peace formula intensifies, Israel is coming under increasing attack from friends as well as foes. The complaint: Jerusalem is too rigid and hawkish. Last week, for example, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat proposed that Israeli troops pull back from the Suez Canal; Egyptian troops would occupy the canal's east bank, and Cairo would reinstitute a formal ceasefire. The suggestion was greeted suspiciously by Israel, which is adamant against Egyptian troops crossing the canal under such terms...
...longer they fail to do anything, the greater the chances for a renewal of fighting along the Suez Canal. As it is, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and his lieutenants, in what may be a psychological-warfare gambit designed to pry concessions out of the Israelis, are warning that their military leaders are growing ever more restive. As part of the same gambit, Sadat disclosed last week that rich new oil discoveries in the western desert will help finance Egypt's armed strength henceforth. At the same time, the Egyptians sought to give the impression that Russian military...