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ALAN, RAY
Aid for Russia Every American tourist visiting Egypt should toss a flower into the great lake behind the Aswan dam and observe a minute's silence in honor of John Foster Dulles. I say this though...
...Peeved or not, the Russians cannot help being relieved that America's broad shoulders are taking over much of their Egyptian burden, thus freeing resources for the assertion of Soviet interests in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean...
...prestige rose a few points on the Iberian Peninsula...
...So who is working night and day to clear the Canal...
...Piqued by Colonel Ga-mal Abdel Nasser's flirtation with "military socialism," he opposed the many people in Washington who thought America should buy Egyptian goodwill by financing the Aswan dam...
...to use three airbases and a submarine port though not for operations in the Mediterranean or Mideast that might raise objections from any of the Arab governments...
...Such accidents have a way of happening in the Mideast...
...Ever since John Foster Dulles slipped the U.S.-Spanish military pact past a somnolent and compliant American Senate 21 years ago, the United States has been considered the enemy of democracy in Spain and Portugal...
...An opinion poll published June 21 by a leading economic journal showed that Spaniards who want U.S...
...Moscow's self-imposed burden in Egypt tied up expertise, materials and money (Cairo still owes the USSR around $5 billion) that might have been used for mischief-making in countries of considerably greater economic and political importance to the West...
...Last October, however, some of them found their way to the Sinai front...
...The pact could also involve Washington in internal strife in Spain...
...Egyptian crowds are famous for cheering today what they howled against yesterday . . . and for howling against it afresh tomorrow...
...The U.S...
...June 14, 1974: President Nixon and President Sadat announced that the U.S...
...A Frenchman replied that, but for Western initiative and technology, the Arabs wouldn't have any oil they'd still be herding goats...
...in return for a high overall rental, it allows the U.S...
...I suspect the Soviets, like the British before them, have learned the hard way that "Egypt is a bruised reed which, if a man lean on it, will pierce his hand," as a Mideastern politician observed some 2,700 years ago...
...The Soviet government promptly picked up the tab and went on to involve itself in other projects and military aid, thereby scoring what the world's sillier diplomats and commentators called a tremendous victory over the U.S...
...One of the officers told them not to exaggerate: Given the combination of massive Soviet supplies, total surprise and Yom Kippur, Charlie Brown could have organized a successful crossing...
...had agreed to provide Egypt with nuclear technology...
...I asked if he had been in an auto accident...
...nato ships had indeed been standing by on the river Tagus during the coup, and the escudo had gained a few cents in value...
...Militarily, it is of little significance...
...Secretary of State...
...Similarly, when France first supplied Libya with military aircraft, both sides stressed that the planes were not for use against Israel...
...If Russia and China refuse, there are other possibilities...
...Its reopening will be wonderful news for the Soviet navy...
...By accident, no doubt...
...Knocks for Jews European journalists visiting Saudi Arabia this year have been given a charming presentation set of two volumes described as "King Faisal's bedside books...
...The second is Protocols of the Elders of Zion, with an introduction that describes anti-Semitism as a legitimate self-defense against the "Jewish peril...
...Thus for the first time in years, U.S...
...Comme dans un Western," said my friend...
...The conversation became heated and an Arab remarked that, thanks to the oil weapon, the West had learned to fear them as much as Israel did...
...Consultations are to open shortly with representatives of the Franco dictatorship...
...Which brings to mind a not wholly unrelated incident...
...Yet he could cleanse America's image in Spain and Portugal And do his country's taxpayers a favor as well by simply allowing the Dulles Pact to lapse...
...In fact, I inflicted the word "pacto-mania" on the English language to sum up his urge to bundle into military alliances every Mediterranean and Mideastern ruler with 50 or more camels on call...
...Leonid Brezhnev and his colleagues may well be as peeved as some observers think by the welcome the Egyptians gave President Nixon in June, though they are no doubt aware that an equally clamorous demonstration could be organized in Cairo next week for Brezhnev or against Nixon...
...He was walking slowly and stiffly, and I noticed that part of him was in plaster...
...Nonetheless, Dulles did get one thing right...
...Atoms for Egypt November 23, 1973: An Egyptian publicist wrote in the semiofficial Al-Ahram, Cairo's leading newspaper, that the Arabs must acquire nuclear weapons...
...and British navies, naturally...
...Diplomatic circles in Madrid believe Washington intends to renew the Dulles Pact, which would otherwise expire next winter...
...One, entitled The Jews, is an anthology of anti-Jewish quotations from more than 400 sources, including none other than Adolf Hitler...
...No, he explained, he had spent an evening in a bar with two colleagues and some of their trainees, who were boasting about Egypt's epoch-making crossing of the Suez Canal...
...Within seconds, bottles and chairs were flying...
...Now it is in danger of falling again...
...The USSR is obviously keen to see the Suez Canal cleared...
...Kissinger is probably unaware of the hostility engendered by the moral and material support the United States has given the Franco dictatorship over the last two decades...
...I doubt if any statesman ever made more assiduous efforts to recruit the wrong allies in the wrong places at the wrong time...
...Politically, the U.S.-Spanish "alliance" besmirches America and embarrasses its friends...
...I say this though not an admirer of the former U.S...
...bases removed from their country outnumber by three to one those who think they should remain...
...When Nixon met Spinola it rose further...
...It was his meeting in the Azores with Portuguese President Antonio de Spinola...
...It is, in short, a costly liability...
...At the end of his latest European tour Henry Kissinger stopped in Madrid to initial a totally hypocritical U.S.-Spanish declaration of cooperation described as paralleling the declaration of Atlantic alliance principles signed by President Nixon last month in Brussels...
...For such Soviet victories American taxpayers and their European friends should give thanks...
...Know-how may be obtained from the Soviet Union or China...
...Despite all the official talk of Washington's very special relationship with Saudi Arabia these days, American correspondents traveling through the oil-rich country do not appear to have been favored with this very special souvenir...
...All that is required," he said, "is 100 of our own scientists and $500 to $700 million...
...American officials will, of course, exercise some control over the use to which the Egyptians put this technology, and both sides have stressed that it will be devoted to peaceful purposes...
...Not long ago, I met a French officer friend who trains Arab officers in the use of some of the hardware their governments buy from Paris...
...Besides being reprimanded, he and his colleagues were advised by higher-ups to remember an old American adage: "The customer is always right...
...But a few weeks back a startling rumor spread through Lisbon and Madrid to the effect that Washington had welcomed, and even discreetly aided, the liberal revolution against the Portuguese dictatorship last April...
...He awoke in the hospital...
...Boost for Franco One of President Nixon's wisest actions during his recent trips to Europe and the Mideast received the smallest newspaper headlines...
Vol. 57 • July 1974 • No. 15
