The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 October 1967 — Page 5

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Reporter comments on Mideast situation and problems

President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic appears to be trying to patch up his quarrel with the United States.

The latest indication was a round-about admission in the authoritative Cairo newspaper A1 Ahram that it was Israeli aircraft alone, without the aid Of U. S. and British warplanes as Nasser first charged, who were able to destroy most of the Egyptian airforce on the

ground on the first day of the Arab-Israeli war. It was with the excuse of U. S. and British intervention that on June 6 Nasser closed the Suez Canal and broke relations with the United States. He already had broken relations with Britain on the issue

of Rhodesia.

The A1 Ahram account, written by Nasser's friend, editor Mohammed Hassenein Heykal. was one of a series

explaining why the Arabs lost the six-day war. U. S. Not Mentioned Without mentioning either the United States or Britain. Heykal explained that the Israelis, in low-flying French Mysteres capable of evading U, A. R. radar came in by “the only route we should have ex-

pected."

Once before, Heykal cautiously had suggested that it might be to Egypt’s advantage to

renew relations with the United

States.

As Nasser has had to face up to his desperate straits there have been other consessions— concessions which have led to i harsh criticism from Arab extremists in both Algeria and

Syria.

Most widley hearlded was the agreement to resume the flow of oil to western nations. Less widely heralded was the reopening of the American Uni-

versity in Cairo and American schools for children of diplomats. Another was to tone down Cairo Radio’s strident ’’Voice of the Arabs.” Harsh realities would favor such action by Nasser.

another 250.000 tons but on! sumption. commercial terms. Aid from the oil kingdoms. Aid Cut Off Saudi Arabia. Kuwait, and Up to the end of fiscal 1966. i Libya, had replaced most of U. S. food aid to the U. A. R. Nasser’s losses in Suez Canal had totaled nearly $1.3 billion revenues, but still fell $40 since 1953. but that aid now, million short of the canal’s was cut off. normal annual return.

question as to how importanl the canal really is since 100.001 ton oil tankers cannot use it and big oil companies find tl more economical to go around the Cape.

Shortly after the war ended. last June, Red China announced a gift of 150.000 tons of wheat to the U. A. R.. enough to meet normal needs for three weeks. The Russians agreed to suply

Furthermore, Israeli occupa-; It had been estimated that tion of the Sinai Peninsula had even if all other issues were cut off Egypt's Belayim oil i settled it would take at least fields producing about 110.000 seven months to raise sunken barrels a day, equivalent to half ships in the canal and clear out the country’s domestic con- the sand. Tfcre is even a

Nasser has worked himsell into a pocket and the United States can scarcely be blamed if it lets him squirm a bit. No* can the Israelis who have hire

just about wnere they want him.

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