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...Last week it focused on a deep uneasiness, even a distrust, between two close and intimate allies. The dispute involved an issue that Israel deemed vital to her security; the continued buildup of Soviet missilery in the 32-mile-wide cease-fire zone on the Egyptian side of the Suez Canal. For its part, the U.S. would have preferred to overlook the missile buildup in an effort to get the peace negotiations moving under the direction of U.N. Special Representative Gunnar Jarring. The Israelis, who say that the Soviets and Egyptians have used the cease-fire to improve their military...
...Gunnar Jarring. In the first meeting, Israel's U.N. Delegate Yosef Tekoah reiterated his country's complaint that the Egyptians had broken the terms of the 90-day cease-fire by placing Soviet SAM-2 and SAM3 missiles in position on the west bank of the Suez Canal. Then, in the next breath, he startled Jarring by announcing that he was flying home that very night for consultation with his government...
Debate Over Talks. In secret Cabinet sessions, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan has urged that the Israelis call off the talks until the Egyptians carry out all provisions of the truce. So far he has been overruled. But Dayan, who had earlier visited Israeli soldiers in trenches along the Suez with Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev, is known to be considering resigning if the talks continue under the present circumstances. "He is debating with himself," a friend said last week, "over whether to continue in the Cabinet." A recent meeting between Dayan and Opposition Leader Menahem Begin threw a scare...
...evidence was frankly not good enough for the U.S. intelligence community, which had been shown the pictures the week before. The resulting dispute stemmed in part from the substantial differences in the ways the U.S. and Israel gather and evaluate their intelligence. To monitor the Suez Canal front, the Israelis rely chiefly on high-speed passes by camera-carrying Phantoms during the daytime. At night, the mainstay of Israeli intelligence is a chain of electronic listening posts in the Sinai hills near the canal. But both these methods have glaring weaknesses: the Phantom pictures are often blurred, and the electronic...
...flap uncovered some amazing faults. One reason that the U.S. was unable to refute or substantiate the Israeli claims was simply its tardiness in getting off the mark. Although the truce went into effect on Aug. 8, the U.S. was unable to get its U-2 reconnaissance planes over Suez until noon on Aug. 9. Then the pilot of the first U-2 botched the job, allowing the brilliant sunlight to get in the camera and render his photos useless. Thus the first worthwhile flight was not made until Monday, almost three days after the cease-fire began...