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...Egyptian artillerymen waited until the sun was low over the Suez Canal and shining in the eyes of Israeli gunners on the occupied east bank. Then, along the 70-mile front, they opened up with a sustained barrage, promptly answered in kind by the Israelis. At a time when a settlement in the Middle East is much on the minds of the leaders of the U.S., Russia and Western Europe, last week's sudden flare-up of violence seemed even more than usually to fit Clausewitz's definition of war as "continuation of diplomacy by other means...
...dimension of terror from the inside added sharply to the burdens of Premier-designate Golda Meir, who, as expected, was voted in by the Israel Labor Party to succeed the late Premier Levi Eshkol last week. Only a day after the vote, trouble flared along the Suez Canal. Hours after Israeli jets shot down an Egyptian MIG-21 over the Sinai, artillery opened up along the 60-mile canal front. For the second time since the Six-Day war, Israeli guns set fire to Egypt's main oil refineries at Suez. The Israelis lost one soldier killed...
Most African states were seething at British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's efforts to reach a settlement with Ian Smith's breakaway white regime in Rhodesia. Singapore and Malaysia deplored Britain's planned military withdrawal from points east of Suez. Australia and New Zealand were unhappy about London's hankerings to join Europe's Common Market, a move that would cost them dearly in tariff concessions. Four East African members that are anxious to get rid of their Asian minorities (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia) were outraged because Britain was not willing to take them...
...always insisted. Instead, the Soviets propose a package that would include Israeli withdrawal-to what lines the Soviets do not clearly say-along with declarations by Arab states of nonbelligerency. The Russians support guaranteed use of the Strait of Tiran by Israel, but leave open the question of the Suez canal, loosely tying it to the beginning of at least a partial settlement of the Arab-refugees problem...
...Israelis insist that declarations of Arab nonbelligerency have not protected them in the past. Neither did the Security Council's guarantee of free passage in the Strait of Tiran when Israel withdrew after the 1956 Suez campaign; the U.N. did not prevent Egypt from blockading the Strait just before the June War. Therefore withdrawal from the occupied territories in exchange for such concessions from the Arabs is unacceptable to the Israelis. What they want is more time. By simply sitting tight since the Six-Day War, the Israelis argue, they have induced the Arabs to hold indirect talks through...