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...Administration on the ground that it is trying to renew the Cold War. Many U.S. officials reciprocate the suspicion because of what they describe as a "trilogy" of events in the past year: 1) The Soviets sent not only missiles but also crewmen to Egypt's aid along the Suez Canal; 2) they gave at least tacit permission for a Soviet-equipped Syrian armored column to invade Jordan during King Hussein's showdown with the Palestinian guerrillas; and 3) they covertly tried to set up a nuclear sub base at Cienfuegos, Cuba. Still, in his last "State of the World...
...army and air force are not noticeably better than in '67, when they were decisively defeated. The Israelis also believe that the broad band of approximately 3,000 Soviet-built (and in many cases Soviet-manned) SA-2 and SA3 missiles on Egypt's side of the Suez Canal can be neutralized-though they do not say how-and that direct Russian intervention is unlikely...
ALAS, a lot of water's gone under the bridge since 1956. Those British who sadly watched the resolution of the Suez War have been getting pleasure and revenge in watching the rise and fall of another empire. And the more successful rad-lib playwrights and filmmakers found national values immutable and moved on to Hollywood...
...withdrawal? Egypt's President Anwar Sadat responded to Jarring's overtures by promising, for the first time, to accept a binding peace treaty and recognition of Israeli sovereignty in exchange for the return of all captured territory. Sadat also asked that Israel pull back from the Suez Canal so that the waterway could be reopened to "international shipping...
...some 500 advisers in the Sudan. Farther down the Horn of Africa in Somalia (see map), there are an estimated 325 Russian advisers. Last year the Russians began to construct a naval base at Port Sudan on the Red Sea, an installation that will be useful, once the Suez Canal is reopened, in the further expansion of Soviet naval activity in the Indian Ocean. Now the Russians are installing SA-2 antiaircraft missiles to defend the base...