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...shuttle (TIME cover, Aug. 25). The Israelis agreed to move their troops out of the Mitla and Giddi passes in Sinai and also turn back to Egypt the Abu Rudeis oilfields captured during the Six-Day War. Egypt agreed in writing to let Israeli nonmilitary cargoes pass through the Suez Canal. Both sides agreed that the Middle East conflict should not be resolved by force and that neither side should "resort to the threat or use of force or military blockade." That fell short of the formal promise of nonbelligerency that Jerusalem demanded of Cairo, but the statement...
...sufficiently confident of his country's mood to allow live television coverage in Egypt of the ceremonies during which Kissinger and Premier Mamduh Salem initialed the documents. The most pressing concern in Egypt now is inflation; the return of Sinai oil, the increased protection for the Suez Canal and additional U.S. aid that accompany the latest agreement will all help that problem...
...RUDEIS OILFIELD. Israel will give up the 72 oil wells along the Gulf of Suez that now provide about half its petroleum. It will also give Egypt a narrow corridor of land along the gulf running south to Abu Rudeis. Israel is building a road around the oilfields so that it can supply its forces further south at El Tur and at Sharm el Sheikh, which controls the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba. But in a unique and symbolically important part of the agreement, Israel will share parts of the existing road inside the Egyptian corridor until...
There is an added incentive: the opportunity to work with an Israeli surveillance system that provides electronic vision from the Gulf of Suez in the south to the Mediterranean in the north, that includes seismic sensors planted as far afield as Lebanon and Syria and that is reputedly far more sophisticated than the old U.S. "McNamara line" along the DMZ in Viet Nam. Among the Israeli improvements on U.S. surveillance gadgetry...
Despite mounting discontent with his leadership, General Idi Amin Dada, Uganda's unhinged head of state, rumbles on. In order to dramatize his offer to lead Egyptian troops against Israel, Big Daddy has now promised to swim the Suez Canal. Widthwise, of course. For all his alleged aquanautical ability, he may be just as happy with a few laps in the White House pool. Amin plans to address the U.N. General Assembly hi New York and says he hopes to visit President Ford as well. "If America respects the views and decisions of the Af rican continent, President Ford...