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...resolve the Middle East crisis. Amid all the tributes paid to this great man were traces of foreboding among the political leaders of the world. The absence of a powerful representative for the Arab nations can only aggravate the already explosive atmosphere in the contiguous region of the Suez. All too often the death of the great statesman produces a plethora of regret not accompanied by equally sincere actions and efforts...
Soviet Complicity. U.S. concern began to mount when the Soviets simply ignored U.S. and Israeli outcries over violations of the Suez Canal ceasefire. Then last week Moscow vitriolically denied its role in any violation and accused the U.S. of "unscrupulous distortion of the facts." Secretary of State William Rogers in a press conference expressed strong "disappointment" with Moscow's role in the standstill breach. In unusually blunt terms, he said the Soviets' behavior has raised "some very serious questions about their intentions," and accused Russia of resuming cold war stridency...
Matter of Markets. U.S. companies have so far survived war, revolution, guerrilla attacks and every Arab attempt to exert leverage on Washington. The Suez Canal has been closed since the Six-Day War in 1967, but American-owned companies have continued to pump oil. The most serious disruption occurred last May, when a bulldozer accidentally severed the Trans-Arabian Pipeline (Tapline) in Syria, cutting off 480,000 bbl. a day. Syria has refused to allow repairs, presumably in order to embarrass the conservative regime in Saudi Arabia, which is losing $100,000 each day that the pipeline remains closed...
...Yemen shortly after the Suez War, I heard a black dock porter reciting an epic poem to a group who lounged in the cafe smoking the hubble-bubble pipe and chewing qat (a mildly narcotic green leaf). Normally, he would have chanted verses about heroes of the past. On this occasion his epic hero was a man named Nasser, who stood on the beaches of Port Said and picked up the British tanks and the French planes and hurled them back into the sea. For him, for other black and brown and yellow men, and wherever the cry "Allahu akbar...
...that the new Soviet capability could complicate the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) with the Russians, due to resume in Helsinki next month. Moreover the intensive Russian experimentation comes at a time when Washington is becoming increasingly nervous about Moscow's intentions in a number of areas-from Suez, where Soviet SA-2 and SA3 missiles have been emplaced in violation of the Mideast truce, to the Cuban sugar port of Cienfuegos, where Russian technicians are building a base capable of handling missile-carrying submarines...