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...what some Israeli officials referred to as a "diplomatic pre-emptive strike," Sadat announced that despite Kissinger's failure, Egypt would reopen the Suez Canal to foreign shipping on June 5, the eighth anniversary of its closing during the 1967 war. Sadat's declaration drew a cool response from the Israelis. "It means nothing to Israel," snapped Premier Yitzhak Rabin, since the Egyptian leader declared that Israeli cargoes could not be transported, even in ships of neutral nations, through the reopened waterway...
Breathing Space. At the same time as he announced that the canal would be reopened-in fact, Egyptian naval vessels have been sailing through the Suez for several weeks-Sadat agreed to extend the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping force in the Sinai at least until July, a shorter extension than Washington had hoped for, but enough to give U.S. diplomats a little breathing space. Among other things, Sadat's maneuver 1) put pressure on the Syrians to renew their own U.N. mandate on the Golan Heights, which expires May 30; 2) strengthened his support in Western Europe...
...results of which will probably be announced by President Ford Thursday night, Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat has shown that he is eager to avoid a new war though he has not indicated any anxiousness for a permanent settlement. Sadat said last week that he will open the Suez Canal on June 5, the eighth anniversary of the start of the Six Day War. The reopening of the canal will require significant capital investment by Egypt, and will provide a steady source of revenue from foreign countries, revenue which Egypt badly needs. Since, in a new war in Sinai, Israel...
...reassess its position in the Middle East, "including our policy towards Israel" - a bald reference to Israel's expected $2.5 billion request for military aid in fiscal 1976. It was the sharpest rebuke to Jerusalem since President Eisenhower in 1956 pressured Israel, France and Britain to end the Suez...
Sadat also announced that the Suez Canal would be reopened June 5 - the eighth anniversary of the 1967 war in which Israel's troops reached the east bank of the waterway, resulting in its closing. Although Sadat did not indicate whether Israeli ships or cargo would be allowed to transit the canal, its reopening and the repopulating by Egyptians of towns along its banks have been awaited as concrete signs that Cairo prefers to pursue a policy of peace. He warned, however, that Egypt was capable of protecting the canal: "We possess a deterrent capacity that makes our enemy...