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...phasing out of British forces east of Suez will be part of an overall military reduction outside Europe that Britain says should save it a badly needed $216 million a year. But the decision represents as much a hello to Europe as a farewell to the Far East, since it is in large part a concession to Charles de Gaulle, who demands that Britain give up some of its far-flung responsibilities and draw closer to Europe as a condition of entering the Common Market...
...hawkishness of the left, the Israelis were daily becoming more rigid in their own positions. It was quite apparent that they expect to hold the conquered territory for a long time. They hauled big guns and little patrol boats over the desert to the banks of the Suez Canal, where a handful of blue-helmeted U.N. observers finally took up positions to guard the cease-fire line, conspicuously flying the blue-and-white U.N. flag to ward off trigger-happy soldiers on both sides. They sent technicians into the Sinai desert to begin working the captured Egyptian oil wells, which...
...Israelis were also becoming aggressive about details. They insisted that the cease-fire line at Suez went right down the middle of the canal, and were ready to drop their little patrol boats into the water to establish legal precedent for the later passage of bigger Israeli shipping. The Egyptians, who insist that the cease-fire line is on the east bank, captured one boat, warned that any others put into the canal would be blasted out of the water. At week's end the only penetration of the canal was by some dusty Israeli troopers trying to cool...
Among such irrational hawks as Aref and Boumediene, Nasser sounded almost like a dove. He counseled against a renewal of fighting with Israel, the skirmishing at Suez notwithstanding, until the Arabs were rearmed and united-a condition that is not imminent. Nasser realizes, however, that he cannot coo too loudly without running the danger of being brushed aside as leader of the Arab left by someone like Boumediene. Even the most hawkish leader at the Cairo conference must have known deep down a horrifying thing: that if full-scale fighting broke out again, the Israeli army could undoubtedly occupy Cairo...
...even more serious loss for the Russians was the half-dozen SAM ground-to-air missiles that, along with their computers, guidance equipment and fueling systems, fell into Israeli hands at an Egyptian base near the Suez Canal. Though the U.S. has already deduced a great deal about SAM's capabilities (it can fly at 2,600 m.p.h. and reach 60,000 feet) and limitations (it cannot execute sharp turns) from intelligence reports and from its performance in North Viet Nam, close study of the Sinai SAMs will give scientists invaluable information. Israel has already passed...