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...addition to attending the funeral, Richardson was instructed to determine the status of the cease-fire talks between Egypt, Jordan, Israel and United Nations Negotiator Gunnar Jarring. The talks, stymied by Nasser's missile movements near the Suez Canal and by Jordan's civil war, will almost certainly be suspended indefinitely. United Nations Secretary-General U Thant acknowledged as much last week when he decided to let Diplomat Jarring return to his regular assignment as Swedish Ambassador to Moscow. Nasser was indispensable to getting the talks going. Before...
Analysts are more worried now about the prospects for a nuclear arms limitations agreement with the Russians in the resumed SALT sessions at Helsinki next month. Yet if the Kremlin operates as realistically on its assessment of self-interest as in the past, Soviet behavior at Suez need not inevitably parallel Soviet behavior elsewhere. The U.S.S.R., after all, had flatly lied to President John Kennedy about its strategic missiles in Cuba in 1962, claiming that there were none and touching off a superpower confrontation. Yet a year later, the two nations were able to agree on a limited nuclear testing...
Preoccupied as the Israelis were with events in Jordan, they also kept a close watch on the Egyptian cease-fire line. New reconnaissance photos, Jerusalem claimed, revealed that nine more missile sites had been constructed in the standstill zone west of the Suez Canal in violation of the terms of the seven-week-old ceasefire. That brings the number of illegally emplaced SA-2 and SA3 batteries to 40, totaling 220 missiles. Despite the violations, however, the Suez remained quiet, and there were indications last week that it might continue that way. Egyptian Ambassador to the U.N. Mohammed Zayyat maintained...
...already tenuous diplomatic foothold in the Arab world, and to establish a disturbing Communist presence along most of the southern flank of NATO. The Soviets have managed these feats by deploying a large, modern naval force in the Mediterranean, and by artfully cementing relations with regimes from Suez all the way across the cap of North Africa...
...thrust aimed at the vast Indian Ocean. "The Russians are advancing south," Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan wrote last month in the Times of London. "If they were given to slogans they would declare: 'Red soldier, go South.' Their way is a succession of straits-the Dardanelles, Suez, Bab el Mandeb (linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden)-but it is a painless progression. No power blocks their...