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...property without compensation, 2) a plan for a "joint development institute" in Cairo to advise U.S. firms on the feasibility of Egyptian projects, and 3) the creation of "senior working groups" of Egyptian and U.S. technocrats to survey periodically such development needs as the re-equipping of the Suez Canal. No sooner had the agreements been reached than they began to pay off. Representatives of Marriott Corp. arrived to plan a 700-room hotel that Marriott will operate for the Egyptians, and this week Charles J. Pilliod Jr., chairman of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., is scheduled to discuss a tire...
...next encampment eight miles away, fires started by detonated mines and exploding demolition charges were eating up miles of brown, sun-withered grain and turning telephone poles into sticks of flame. A column of Israeli tanks rolled by, flags flying. The crews waved perfunctorily, unlike the withdrawal from the Suez, where the soldiers had smiled, sung and even danced as they left. In Egypt, moreover, nobody spoke of having to return...
...Henry Kissinger considered what a nightmare he has created? Soon Russian ships will have easier access through the reopened Suez Canal to threaten Egypt and oil-producing Persian Gulf nations and extend Soviet influence on India. Could it be the Russians permitted Kissinger to negotiate the Middle East settlement because it will be to their strategic advantage...
...Eight months ago, Egyptians regarded Nixon as the villain who was sending Phantom jets to the Israelis. Now Sadat has gone so far as to say that the impeachment of Nixon "would be a tragedy." A U.S. Navy task force has just completed a minesweeping operation to reopen the Suez Canal, closed since the 1967 war. Syria, still tied to the Russians by arms and economic aid, not long ago was denouncing the U.S. as its archenemy and an agent of Zionism. After the October war, Saudi Arabia led the move to cut off oil to the U.S. in retaliation...
...struggle occurs mostly in Little England, a political shire now shorn of power and purpose, where there may simply be too much central heating for the spy who comes in from the cold. (One of the reasons the mole becomes a mole, in fact, seems to be the 1956 Suez disaster. He joins Moscow in part to be where the historic action is.) Le Carré heightens suspense by lowering the number of suspect moles to two. The remorseless world of international espionage is thus transformed into something very like a traditional English detective story with the suspects figuratively locked...