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...President concluded that he had to signal the Soviets that the U.S. did not intend to stand by idly in this crisis. There was an element of compensation in this; two weeks before, the U.S. had appeared helpless and indecisive when Egypt and Russia callously violated the Suez standstill agreement. A second display of weakness might be highly damaging. He kept a date with editors of the Chicago Sun-Times and Daily News?and deliberately took an overly tough line. Nixon hinted that the U.S. might use the holding of the airline hostages as a handy excuse to attack...
...because of them?the Rogers peace initiative is still alive?barely. While it seemed to founder on the failure of the U.S. to prevent Soviet duplicity in Egypt, it is now a matter of even more urgency. The plan has at least led to a cease-fire along the Suez. Both sides have agreed at least in principle to renewed talks...
...Arab governments to live up to agreements, as well as on the commitment of the U.S. to guarantee them. Israel must also be able to believe that Russia will no longer connive with Arabs in a way that endangers Israeli security. What happened in Jordan and along the Suez makes such trust more difficult than ever to establish...
...appearing unusually solemn, arrived in the U.S. on two vital missions. First, she wanted to negotiate a long-term package of military and economic aid. Her military shopping list included sophisticated electronic equipment and Phantom jets that would partially offset Israel's loss of advantage at the Suez front caused by the forward deployment of the Soviet missiles. The economic proposals mainly involved long-term credits to a nation that spends almost 30% of its gross national product on defense, more than three times what the U.S. allocates...
Egypt and Israel confronted each other uneasily across the Suez Canal. Half a world away, the corridors of the United Nations Secretariat building buzzed with talk of skyjackings and guerrillas. There were plenty of crises-and opportunities for the U.N. to assume a peace-keeping role. Yet when the new president of the General Assembly, Norway's Edvard Hambro, addressed the world organization last week at the opening of its 25th session, he implicitly acknowledged that the U.N. was powerless to cope with problems of such magnitude...