NOVEMBER 5, 1973

ROUND-UP 2

A tense cease-fire liable to collapse with the outbreak of renewed fighting in the Canal area is reported by the banner headlines of "Al Ahram" and "Al Gombouria".

News reports from the front indicate that the situation is charged with danger and that shelling has been continuously heard, while successive Israeli statements about alleged military operations by the Egyptian forces in various positions are trying to convey the impression that Egypt is violating the cease-fire in order that the enemy may use this as a pretext for destroying the Security Council resolutions.

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Dayan accused Egypt of massing more forces in the Suez Canal zone facing the Israeli forces on the west bank of the waterway for a fresh round of fighting in the area.

Dayan said he believed that it was certain the Egyptian forces would resume the war and that Israel must expect this and realize that the war had not ended.

"Al Akhbar" leads off with a report on the scene in Washington and speculation on the situation on the eve of Kissinger's trip to a number of Arab countries, which the two other papers combine with the leading stories.

"Al Akhbar" and "Al Ahram" print pictures of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir with U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger towards the end of a lengthy meeting last night.

Meir is reported to have postponed her departure from Washington for the second time in order to resume her consultations with Kissinger. She has also postponed the statement she was to make tomorrow before the Knesset.

Reports also indicate that she is expected to confront severe criticism on her return to Israel especially on the part of the ruling Israeli Labour Party whose right and left wings have declared that the general strategic concept of Israel since 1967 had proved a failure.

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SF/P.

["NOVEMBER 5, 1973", "ROUND-UP 4", "President Anwar el Sadat yesterday received Tunisian Foreign Affairs Minister Mohamed el Massmudi, Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba's envoy who arrived in Cairo for talks with the Government.", "Al Gomhouria prints a picture of President El Sadat greeting Foreign Affairs Minister El Massmudi.", "Al Akhbar reserves a box next to its banner in which it reports that the campaign in the USA against US President Richard Nixon has intensified and that Nixon's opponents are now calling for his resignation.", "The intensification is explained as being the result of a campaign by pro-Zionist pressure groups trying to make sure that intervention by President Nixon and State Secretary Henry Kissinger would only be for the benefit of Israel.", "Algerian President Houari Boumedienne left Damascus for Baghdad where he conferred with Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan el Bakr, while Libyan President Moammar el Gaddfy arrived in the Syrian capital for talks with Syrian President Hafez el Assad.", "These wide-scale consultations among Arab leaders are aimed at laying an Arab plan of action for the coming phase of the Arab-Israeli conflict.", "Presidential Adviser Dr. Mohamed Hassan el Zayyat arrived in Paris yesterday and will meet with French President Georges Pompidou today.", "Dr. El Zayyat will confer tomorrow with French Foreign Affairs Minister Michel Jobert and will later fly to London for a similar meeting with British Prime Minister Edward Heath and Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas Home.", "-/-'}, "SF/NA"]

NOVEMBER 5, 1973

ROUND-UP 5

El-Zayyat will wind up his tour with a visit to Belgrade for a meeting with President Tito.

The Presidential Adviser is carrying messages from President El Sadat to President Pompidou, Prime Minister Heath and President Tito.

Foreign Affairs Minister Ismail Fahmy will return from the U.S.A. and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will arrive in Cairo tomorrow and will be received by President El Sadat.

The blockade imposed by Egypt on shipping to Israel has caused a reduction of production in Israeli copper mines.

Arab Petroleum Ministers began their emergency meeting in Kuwait yesterday and are discussing tightening the oil embargo applying to countries giving support to Israel.

Egyptian Official Spokesman Ahmed Anis held a press conference yesterday at which he told newsmen that Egypt expected Dr. Henry Kissinger to implement the U.S. declared line in regard to the Middle East war.

Daily press conferences will be held by the official spokesman and the military spokesman in order to keep newsmen informed of the probable developments of the situation.

SF/P.

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CAIRO PRESS REVIEW

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November 5, 1973

Meir Story

EXPLOSIVE SITUATION ALL ALONG FRONT LINES

Shelling Did Not Cease All The Time Amid
Israeli Statements Which Indicate That
Israel Is Scheming To Dynamite Cease-Fire
Resolution

ISRAELI COMMAND SAYS : BIG EGYPTIAN FORCES
ARRIVED IN THE CANAL AREA IN THE PAST HOURS

Evident Concern In Washington Following
Kissinger's Talks Held All Night With Ismail
Fahmy And Later With Meir

Reports received from the front
were unanimous that the situation
was grave along the confrontation
lines as shelling continued all
the time. Meanwhile, the enemy
deliberately releases successive
communiques on military operations
carried out by the Egyptian forces
from various positions with a view
to creating an impression that
Egypt is the one which violates
cease-fire. Israel wants by this
to find a pretext to dynamite the
Security Council resolutions.

Reuter quoted an Israeli military
spokesman as having said that the
Israeli forces along the canal
were in a state of alert in the
wake of the series of events which
took place along the southern
sector of the Canal.

The spokesman said that the most serious violation of cease-fire took place on Saturday afternoon when the Egyptian forces tried to set up a bridge for the infantry forces across the Canal in the area between the Bitter Lakes and the city of Suez. This was followed by exchange of fire which continued for hours between the Egyptian and Israeli forces.

The spokesman added that following this incident, fire was
also exchanged across the Canal in the area of Fayed and in Al Gadi
Pass which is 60 kilometers inside Sinai.

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November 5, 1973

The second violation occurred at 2.45 p.m. when the U.N. Forces sighted planes overflying the whole front. The U.N. observers believe that the planes belonged to Israel.

At the same time, the Swedish force to the south of Ismailia and to the south west faced a barrage of fire which came from both sides. The situation, however, was brought under control one hour later.

A U.N. spokesman said that an Irish force of 130 officers and soldiers left Cairo for Sinai and they now occupy for the first time some positions along the Eastern bank. The U.N. forces now total 1004 officers and soldiers and they come from the following countries :

Austria ........ 205
Finland ........ 221
Ireland ........ 129
Sweden ........ 449

Concern And Puzzlement Prevail
In Washington Following Kissinger's
Intensive Talks

Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger yesterday held talks which continued all night and were concentrated on one problem only, namely, the October 22 lines, and the exchange of war prisoners. There are many indications that Dr. Kissinger did not make any progress.

Dr. Kissinger started his talks with the meeting he held at his office with Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy at 10 p.m. Talks continued for more than one hour after which Kissinger went to Belair House where Golda Meir was staying. The Israeli Premier postponed her departure for a day especially for this meeting. Dr. Kissinger started his talks with Mrs. Meir a short time before midnight. The meeting lasted for two and half hours. Kissinger met Meir again in the morning before her departure for Tel-Aviv.

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November 5, 1973

Ismail Fahmy's talks concentrated on the full and
urgent implementation of the Security Council resolutions
No. 338 and 339 and America's pledge guaranteeing the
exemption of these resolutions stipulating withdrawal to
the October 22 lines, and the immediate execution of
Security Council resolution No. 242.

Kissinger Starts His Talks In Cairo
Tomorrow

Secretary of State D. Henry Kissinger will arrive
tomorrow in Cairo on a 2-day visit to discuss developments
of the Middle East situation. Dr. Kissinger will be received
at the airport by Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy.

Official talks between Ismail Fahmy and Kissinger will
start immediately following Kissinger's arrival and will be
resumed the following day.

President Sadat will receive Dr. Kissinger during his
visit.

Dr. Kissinger's itinerary includes a visit to the
Pyramids and the Sphinx on his own request.

Dr. Kissinger is not expected to hold any press con-
ference during his visit.

The State Department said yesterday that Dr. Kissinger
had a 40-minute telephone conversation with President Nixon
for last-minute directives before he leaves on his Middle
East tour. American statements did not say if Dr. Kissinger
will carry personal messages from President Nixon to Sadat
and the other Arab leaders whom Dr. Kissinger will meet.

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(All Papers -
Comp. Summary)

GG/P.

["CAIRO PRESS REVIEW", "- 12 -", "NOVEMBER 5, 1973", "EGYPT :", "OFFICIAL SPOKESMAN TELLS FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS:\n---\nEGYPT EXPECTS KISSINGER TO IMPLEMENT AMERICA'S\nDECLARED LINE", "It was decided to hold daily press conferences by the official and military spokesmen to answer questions of the foreign correspondents on the probable developments of the situation. It was also decided to organise visits by those correspondents to Israeli wounded and prisoners in Egypt.", "The first of these conferences was held yesterday by Ahmed Anis, the Egyptian Official Spokesman.", "Anis said yesterday that Israel is required to withdraw at once to the October 22 ceasefire lines in accordance with U.N. Security Council resolution No. 339 and any procrastination would create a serious situation that may lead to grave consequences to peace in the Middle East.", "ARAB LEADERS", "The spokesman started by replying to a question on the talks between President Sadat and the Algerian President Houari Boumedienne on the one hand, and with the Emir of Kuwait, Sheik Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah on the other. The spokesman said that it was natural with such a united Arab stand, to evaluate already completed Arab action and to make consultations concerning the requirements of the coming stage. Such was the topic dealt with in the meetings between President Sadat, President Hafez El Assad, the Emir of Kuwait, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia and the Algerian President Houari Boumedienne.", "The spokesman also said that there is complete coordination between President Sadat and President Hafez El Assad and that all contacts with the U.S. Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger, express in fact the Arab point of view with regard to the issues at hand.", "-/-'}, "SWI/MF"]

["CAIRO PRESS REVIEW", "- 13 -", "NOVEMBER 5, 1973", "MEIR'S STATEMENT", "Replying to a question on Egypt's reaction to Mrs. Golda Meir's statement that she has not been pressured by U.S. President Richard Nixon, the official spokesman said that the answer to this question had been given by President Sadat in his press conference on Wednesday, October 31; then he said that the two super powers had guaranteed the implementation of the Security Council resolution No. 338 of October 22, the text of which is known to all.", "KISSINGER'S TALKS", "Replying to another question on Egypt's expectations from talks with Dr. Henry Kissinger, the spokesman said that Egypt expects the implementation of the declared policy of the U.S. with regard to the implementation of Security Council Resolution No. 338 and 339 for 1973.", "No. itinerary for Dr. Kissinger's visit has been arranged, he added. The U.S. Secretary of State will be accompanied by 17 White House and State Department advisers and a group of journalists, he continued.", "Dr. Kissinger, the spokesman went on, will stay at one of the guest palaces in Cairo and would meet with Egyptian officials. A meeting with President Sadat will be arranged and it is not known yet whether he would give a press conference before leaving Egypt, he said.", "Replying to a question on whether there was a deadline for the withdrawal of Israeli forces to the October 22 lines before Egypt took any measures, the spokesman said resolutions No. 338 and 339 of the Security Council provide for the immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces to the October 22 lines. Procrastination in the implementation of these two resolutions constitutes a serious situation which may lead to grave consequences with regard to peace in the area.", "-/-'}, "SWI/MF"]

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NOVEMBER 5, 1973

EXCHANGE OF WOUNDED P.O.W.S.

The spokesman then replied to another question saying that the Egyptian authorities agreed to the principle of the exchange of the wounded in accordance with the Geneva Convention.

But with regard to the exchange of prisoners of war, Article 118 of the Convention stipulates that lists of those prisoners are to be exchanged first and this is being done at the moment.

He added that the wounded and the captives are decently treated in Egypt, contrary to what Israel did to prisoners in previous wars and that this was left by many of them during their visits to hospitals.

He then reminded them that the inhuman treatment meted out by the Israelis contrary to the Geneva Convention and International Law is still evident in Israeli raids on civilians in Suez including old men, women and children.

U.N. FORCE

Replying to an inquiry made by a Canadian magazine correspondent in Cairo about Egypt's objection to the participation of the Canadian troops in the UN Emergency Forces, the spokesman said that it was for the United Nations Office to give the answer to that question.

None the less, he added, Egypt did not object to any of the UN Emergency Forces but left matters completely in the hands of the Security Council and the UN Secretary General.

In reply to another question by the same correspondent about Canada's foreign policy and whether Egypt considered any of the sides of this policy uneven or unfair with regard to the Middle East, the spokesman said that the Government of Egypt has not up till this moment tackled this subject and if Egypt forms an opinion about it, it will be declared in time.

Another correspondent asked whether it is possible to visit the Israeli wounded and POW's to gauge their opinion on the subject of being used as hostages by Israel. The spokesman said that there was no objection to this and that the request will be granted and arranged for.

All Papers
F. T.

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SWI/MF

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NOVEMBER 5, 1973

Dr. Zayyat Meets Pompidou Today and Heath
Tomorrow

Dr. Mohamed Hassan El Zayyat, the Presidential Adviser, arrived in Paris yesterday for talks with President Pompidou of France.

Dr. Zayyat is carrying messages from President Anwar El Sadat to both President Pompidou and British Prime Minister Edward Heath with whom Dr. Zayyat will confer tomorrow (Tuesday) in London.

Following his visit to London, Dr. Zayyat will fly to Belgrade carrying a message from President Sadat to President Tito of Yugoslavia.

Dr. Zayyat said upon arrival at Paris yesterday that he will explain the present Middle East situation to President Pompidou. He added that he came to France in view of her special position in Europe and her relations with Egypt and the Arab World.

President Pompidou will receive Dr. Zayyat tonight and Dr. Zayyat will confer tomorrow with Michel Jobert, the French Foreign Minister.

The Egyptian Presidential Adviser is due in London tomorrow for a two-day visit to Britain where he will have talks with Edward Heath, the British Prime Minister, and Sir Alec Douglas Home, the British Foreign Secretary.

A reliable British source said that Dr. Zayyat's talks with British officials will deal with the immediate and long term eventualities of the Arab-Israeli war.

Dr. Zayyat is accompanied by Dr. Kamal Eddin Khalil, the Foreign Ministry's Undersecretary of State.

All Papers.
FT.

Salah Ghareeb Back From Libya

Salah Ghareeb, Minister of Manpower and Chairman of the General Egyptian Workers Federation, yesterday returned to Cairo after attending the emergency meeting of the Arab Trade Union Federation's chairmen held in Tripoli to discuss means of implementing resolutions relating to Arab workers' role in the war.

The meeting was arranged at the invitation of the International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions.

All Papers.
F.T.

SWI-AMH/GFH.

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NOVEMBER 5, 1973

Marei Reports To President On Visit
To Arab States

Presidential Aide Engineer Hassan Marei presented a report to President Anwar El Sadat on the results of his tour to the Arabian Gulf states. Marei said King Feisal and the rulers of the Arabian Gulf countries expressed to him their absolute solidarity with Egypt in matters of their oil policy and other measures aimed at consolidating the Arab stand in the face of the Zionist challenge. Marei discussed with Egyptians working in the Arabian Gulf countries, recent developments in Egypt; they contributed one month's pay to the war effort in Egypt. Marei said that during his Arabian Gulf tour a Dutch envoy visited the area trying to persuade the Gulf countries to go back on their decision to impose an embargo on their oil exports to Holland, but the Arabs of the Gulf replied that it was not possible for Holland to bend under Zionist pressure and at the same time to try and win Arab friendship and assistance.

Al-Akhbar, p.l.
F.T.

AFRO-ASIAN Solidarity Organisation Reconsiders
Relations With Israel

The Afro-Asian Solidarity Organisation is currently probing the possibility of holding an emergency meeting in Baghdad to discuss the economic relations between the Organisation's members and Israel following the severance of diplomatic relations by many countries.

More than 70 Afro-Asian Solidarity Organisation committees and 30 International Organisations would attend the proposed meeting.

It is expected that resolutions aiming at breaking off economic ties between the Afro-Asian Solidarity Organisation African members and Israel would be adopted.

All Papers.
F.T.

SAF-AMH/GFH.

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NOVEMBER 5, 1973

OCTOBER 6 ARAB REBIRTH DATE, SAYS
MRS. SADAT

Mrs. Jihan El Sadat, Wife of the President yesterday visited Sinai Liberation War wounded hospitalised at Ein Shams University. Dr. Aisha Rateb, Minister of Social Affairs and Dr. Mohamed Kamel Leila, Minister of Higher Education accompanied the President's wife on her visit.

Mrs. Sadat talked to some of the convalescents about the war of October 6, saying that it was really a turning point in the life of all Egyptians and all Arabs as well, a rebirth date.

She said that it was sufficient proof that the forces crossed the canal and without fear or hesitation destroyed the mythical Bar-Lew line in broad daylight and shattered the myth of the intangible Israeli soldier.

Mrs. Sadat added that the war is long and that all must join hands for the sake of achieving a final victory, and realising a just peace.

ALL PAPERS
FT

ISLAMIC RELATIONS WITH TUNISIA, SENEGAL,
SOMALIA STRENGTHENED

Mohamed Tawfik Oweida, Islamic Affairs Higher Council Secretary General, yesterday held a meeting with Moustafa Sissi, Senegalese Ambassador in Cairo, El Habib Ben Khoga, Dean of Sharqa College, Zeitouna University in Tunisia, and Ali El Sakkaf, Somalia's Chief Justice.

Consolidation of Islamic Cultural relations between Egypt and the three countries were discussed.

The representatives of the three countries expressed their countries' backing of Egypt and the Arab nation in their heroic struggle to recover the usurped lands.

ALL PAPERS
FT

AMH/EGF

["CAIRO PRESS REVIEW", "-19-", "NOVEMBER 5, 1973", "Joint Efforts for Reconstruction Canal\nZone, Sinai.", "President Anwar El Sadat yesterday received Osman Ahmed Osman, Minister of Reconstruction. The Minister was also received by Dr. Abdel Aziz Hegazy, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Economy and Foreign Trade, who discussed with him the activities of the Ministry and the necessary appropriations for these activities.", "Reconstruction Minister Osman Ahmed Osman yesterday at a meeting with Dr. Aisha Rateb Minister of Social Affairs reached an agreement to form a joint committee representing the Ministry of Reconstruction and the Ministry of Social Affairs. The Committee will meet weekly to consider Sinai reconstruction plans.", "The agreement also provided that the Ministry of Social Affairs would be entrusted with the task of training the workers needed for housing and building projects envisaged in the Sinai reconstruction plans.", "The Ministry is also to organise training camps for the youth of both sexes who are eligible for duties under the public service law to cover Sinai's needs as soon as reconstruction plans are put into effect.", "At the same time, the Ministry of Manpower, in cooperation with the Ministry of Social Affairs, is making an intensive survey of evacuees from the Canal Governorates and Sinai to assess the labour force of these areas.", "The survey will serve as a guide to probe the manpower status of those areas after the war with a view to filling any shortages that may arise.", "A responsible source at the Ministry of Manpower also said that the Ministry's plan for the current year included inspection tours by Ministry officials of the industrial estates for civil defence purposes.", "The plan also provides for periodic meetings of the manpower bureaux, directorates and departments for orientation and the exchange of viewpoints, on the Ministry's post-war plans.", "-/-'}, "AMH/NA"]

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NOVEMBER 5, 1973

The reconstruction of the Canal zone will be discussed by the Academy for Scientific Research and Technology which will start its sixth session today under Dr. Abdel Moneim Abul Azm, Chairman of the Academy. The session will be attended by the 36 Academy members.

The discussions will focus on reconstruction west of the Canal and the Gulf of Suez as well as in Sinai with a view to exploiting its mineral, plant and animal resources.

A committee has been appointed to study and suggest the best methods for compiling data on Sinai's environment and natural resources.

Today, it is due to submit a comprehensive report to the council together with an outline of development policy and ways and means to implement it.

Meanwhile, the research councils for industry, irrigation, land, petroleum, minerals and social sciences have been called to study aspects of their respective activities in the reconstruction of the west of the Canal region and the Gulf of Suez.

All papers
F.T.

ASU Political Secretariat Discusses
Current Targets

Dr. Mohamed Hafez Ghanem, Arab Socialist Union Central Committee Secretary General yesterday attended a meeting of the Political Affairs Secretariat held for the purpose of defining the targets of political action during the current plane following achievements since October 6.

Khaled Mohi El Din, National Peace Conference Secretary, and Zakaria Lutfy Gomaa, People's Assembly member, described the backing of both the International Peace Conference lately held in Moscow and the International Parliamentary Conference held in Europe, of the Arab stand.

SWI/ES/NA

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NOVEMBER 5, 1973

APAN WORLD

- Intensive Arab Summit Contacts

- Talks Between El-Assad, Boumedienne, And Il-Bakr.

The Arab world witnessed yesterday wide-scale consul-
tations among Arab Heads of State aimed at laying a plan of

All Arab Weapons for the Battle of Arab-Nation

(Reproduced from Al-Akhbar)

Algerian President Houari Boumedienne left for Baghdad for talks with Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan el Bakr, while Libyan President Moammar el Gaddafi arrived in Damascus for talks with Syrian President Hafez el Assad.

SWI/GFH.

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NOVEMBER 5, 1973

Kuznetsov Confers with Khaddam

Abdel Halim Khaddam, Syrian Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister, reviewed with Vasili Kuznetsov, First Deputy of Soviet Foreign Minister, the latest Middle East developments and other issues of interest to both Syria and the Soviet Union.

Nour Eddin Muhieddinov, Soviet Ambassador in Damascus, attended the meeting.

Kuznetsov arrived in Damascus last Saturday from Cairo.

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F.T.

Arab Oil Ministers Study New Measures For
Compact Oil Embargo

Arab Ministers of Petroleum held an emergency sitting in Kuwait yesterday with three important topics related to use of oil as a weapon in the battle of liberation on the agenda.

- How to convey oil at a steady rate to friendly countries.

- How to convey oil to the twenty seven African countries severing their relations with Israel and formerly receiving their oil supplies through Western oil companies shipping oil to America and Holland to whom the present embargo applies.

- In view of Holland's request filed with the EEC for a share of re-exported oil from EEC countries not affected by the Arab embargo, the Arab Ministers of Petroleum decided that this matter must be reviewed to avoid re-export of Arab oil to hostile countries.

Associated Press reports that among suggestions put up for approval by the Conference is that of exporting to consumer-countries not affected by the embargo at their exact rate of consumption.

Western Observers say that the Arab Petroleum Ministers' emergency sitting took place at a time when former embargo resolutions had begun to show results. American and most Western countries have begun to suffer from the acute power shortage. And in Kuwait measures adopted towards decreasing Arab oil production have caused production there to come almost to a halt. In the Hague car owners not observing restrictions imposed by the Dutch Government exposed themselves to severe penalties among which are confiscation of their cars, six years imprisonment and fines reaching forty thousand dollars.

SAF/GFH.

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["CAIRO PRESS REVIEW", "-27-", "NOVEMBER 5, 1973", "NEWS IN BRIEF", "- Mohamed Ben Yunis, Libyan resident Minister in Cairo, arrived last night from Benghazi.", "- Takeiuddin El Solh, Lebanese Premier, yesterday telephoned Dr. Mohamed Abdel Kader Hatem, Deputy Premier for Culture and Information and Minister of Information.", "-The Higher National Action Committee held a meeting yesterday under the chairmanship of Dr. Mohamed Abdel Kader Hatem, Deputy Prime Minister for Culture and Information and Minister of Information.", "All members attended the meeting.", "- Kuwaiti State Minister, Abdel Aziz Hussein, said in a statement broadcast by Kuwaiti Radio yesterday, that the visit to France of Sheikh Sabah El Salem El Sabah, Emir of Kuwait has been postponed.", "A new date for the visit which was slated for November 19 will be fixed later on.", "- A delegation from the National Libyan General Maritime Oil Transport Company is to visit Sweden to study the possibility of acquiring two oil-tankers for company operations, the Arab Revolution News Agency reported. in Tripoli yesterday.", "- The People's Assembly will start today reforming the bureaux of the Council's Permanent Committees as well as the regional groups.", "The Permanent Committee will be formed next week.", "The People's Assembly's committees will resume today their meetings to discuss some draft. Laws and international agreements.", "AZ/NA", "-/-'}, "......"]

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NOVEMBER 5, 1973

Dr. Abdel Aziz Hegazy, Deputy Premier and Minister of Finance, economy and Foreign Trade, yesterday received Engineer Osman Ahmed Osman, Minister of Reconstruction.

Discussions at the meeting were focused on matters connected the reconstruction of Sinai and Suez Governorate, activities of the Ministry and the necessary appropriations for these activities.

Hafez Badawy, Speaker of the People's Assembly yesterday received Saeb Sallam, Former Lebanese Premier who is visiting Cairo at present.

Discussions at the meeting dealt with the current situation from the political and military points of view.

Dr. Khairy El Soghayar, Speaker of the Confederal National Assembly, returned Cairo yesterday after a seven-day visit to Libya.

While there, he conferred with officials of the Libyan Government.

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AZ/EGF

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NOVEMBER 5, 1973

EDITORIALS :

AN ARGUMENT THAT CALLS FOR CAREFUL
ATTENTION

The argument is being put forward today "why should we - the Arabs - not foil Israel's plans to freeze the present situation at the positions it now holds, by dragging us into sterile discussions of the impossibility of returning to the October 22nd lines on the assumption of the absence of rules to be applied for the demarcation of those lines. This is especially so since such manoeuvres will impede direct attention to the main issues: the commencement of peace talks accompanied by the withdrawal of Israel from the occupied territories in application of Security Council resolution No. 242".

This argument, however, which appears to call for the frustration of Israel's plans to hamper the execution of the Security Council's resolution as a basis of settlement; represents, in fact, a call for submission to Israel's terms.

For Israel, by urging immediate talks without return to the October 22nd lines, is just testing the extent of adherence by the United States, the entire world community and the Security Council to Resolution No. 338.

Israel is also exploring the possibilities of excluding international resolutions as a basis for a political solution of the dispute, in line with the commitments of the international parties concerned with the crisis.

With the complete absence of confidence between the direct parties to the problem, this call has only one meaning namely the submission to the logic of power alone as a basis for settlement, or alternatively, having another recourse to military force if international resolutions are excluded as a basis of such a settlement.

This is a serious pointer to Israel's real intentions at a time when Kissinger is preparing to visit the area, and the contractual agreements to give effect to the Security Council's resolutions, are at their peak. The worst that could happen now is the abandonment of the legal rules from which such contractual agreements draw their power.

However, Egypt will not let Israel impede the implementation of the Security Council's resolutions, or let her drag us through labyrinths without avail.

Nevertheless, Egypt will not forego legal rules as an indispensable basis for the establishment of a just and firm peace in the area.

Al Ahram
A.F. T.

AH/MF

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NOVEMBER 5, 1973

EDITORIAL

Israel Prepares for Further Military Aggression

According to Telaviv sources, Golda Meir, submitted to President Nixon during their recent Washington talks, a proposal calling for the return of the Egyptian forces to the Western bank, and of the Israelis to the Eastern, and that both sides should stand on lines at certain distances from both banks of the Suez Canal, with the United Nations emergency forces guarding the space between.

Meir would appear to have made her suggestion as an alternative to Resolution No. 338 as well as a solution, from the Israeli standpoint, to the ambiguity which it claimed, surrounded the question of defining the October 22nd lines.

This proposal can be viewed only within the frame of the declarations made by Israeli authorities over the past two days, and the outstanding traits of the Israeli policy.

For the proposal is closely linked to the statements made by Ishak Rabin, the former Israeli Ambassador to Washington, to the effect that "our common interests" - meaning the interests of Israel and the United States - lie in the impossibility for the Arab states to impose a resolution against the interest of Israel for this, he said, would adversely affect the interests of both Israel and the United States.

Meir's proposal is also linked up the declaration by an official of the U.S. Department for Defence, to the effect that the Israeli Prime Minister had called for fresh shipments of U.S. arms, in excess of all that Israel had before the outbreak of the October 6 war, and that she would get all that she had demanded.

Those happenings, viewed against the background of Israel's repeated claims that Egypt had violated the ceasefire, that the Egyptian third army, which Israel claims to have surrounded, is carrying out military operations East of the Canal, in addition to the constant and deliberate talk about the flow of Soviet arms into Egypt and Syria after the ceasefire, point to one single conclusion, namely that Israel is already planning for a large-scale and impending military operation whereby to break the ceasefire in an attempt to get some face-saving gains, and to divert the attention of the Israelis from the differences and the disruptions which have caused a rift in both the military organisation and the Israeli policy.

AH/NA

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NOVEMBER 5, 1973

People's Talk

By: Aly Handy El Gammal

Dr. Mohamed Hassan El Zayyat, the Presidential Adviser, left Cairo yesterday for Paris on an assignment by President Anwar El Sadat, to meet French President Pompidou, and later, the British Prime Minister in London.

Those contacts will be made in accordance with a decision of President Sadat which he announced at his last Wednesday's press conference, and which covers Belgrade in addition to London and Paris.

It goes without saying that contacts with Europe these days is an important matter which we should constantly follow up, for two principal reasons:

a- Europe should be kept always acquainted with Arab moves.

b- Relations between Europe and the United States are strained now that Europe has felt that the United States set the priorities of its international relations on the basis of Israel's interests.

Israel will not remain silent over Europe's present attitude towards the problem, and it behoves us to forestall Israel's plans especially that our position is stronger and our circumstances more favourable.

A. L. Ahram
F.T.

AH/NA

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1973
(C.P.R. SUPPLEMENT)

WHAT DO WE READ? AND WHAT DO WE HEAR?

By: Moussa Sabry

Al Akbar editor Moussa Sabry warns in a front-page editorial about "the new tone creeping into" America's Middle East attitude, described only last week as constructive by President Sadat.

"While we are still at the beginning of the road, we have begun reading and hearing in the past four days a new tone indicating the styles of the past six years want to infiltrate, like the fragile Israeli pocket infiltrated into scattered and limited territories west of the Canal", Sabry wrote.

The more cooperation of Israel with the U.N. cease-fire supervisors needs American pressure, sustained contacts and compromise solutions. "We have not entered into the crux of the issue yet, and it is as though the problem has boiled down to the October 22 positions only-just like President Sadat's 1971 peace initiative was turned into maneuvers limited to opening the Canal", he added.

Sabry notes the developments came after essentially favourable statements regarding a solution by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. But, he adds, it seems the situation has changed since then.

He warns the Israelis are concentrating all their efforts on getting new arms to launch a new attempt for destruction of Arab armies, using political contacts at the same time as a maneuver "that could continue indefinitely in haggling about the October 22 lines, prisoners of war and the Bab El Mandab blockade".

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The Israelis are now using the "Masada Complex" to convince the world they are not at war with the Arabs but with the Soviet Union. If this and other persuasive attempts fail, the Israelis will forge ahead with their design to "vict Nixon, and consequently Kissinger".

Sabry says there have been diplomatic reports that the Watergate scandal was a Zionist movement against Nixon for fear that he may deviate -- in the barb of an American President who has attained peace -- into a pacifist adventure in the Middle East. This is especially so since he can not be reelected to the White House".

"Now we hear an American senator accuse Nixon of preparing for a military coup inside America. And Robert Kennedy -- who expressed enthusiasm for Nixon's nuclear alert -- comes out again yesterday to voice opposition to the same move".

Events after the Sixth of October prompted a new outlook for the sake of world peace, but current developments indicate the stage may be set again for "feet-dragging, maneuvers, and riddles of interpretations".

"Our answer to this is neither optimism nor pessimism. We are not begging for peace, but extending a strong hand for it. We are one Arab nation deciding its fate through a historic stand, regardless of Israeli preparations for a new adventure on the merit of modern weapons pouring on her. A mere ceasefire is not a beginning for peace and -- like the President said -- the Arab Nation is prepared to fight for ten years".

Al Akhbar P.l
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SPECIAL REPORT

BELRUT-ROSE EL YOUSSEF BUREAU

The prevailing opinion in the Palestinian guerrilla leadership is for attendance of the proposed international peace conference on the Middle East. This is especially the view of Fatah and the Democratic Front, which is the view on which the Palestine Liberation Organisation will ultimately rest.

The most important thing the Palestinian movement is concentrating upon is its status as the sole legitimate representative and spokesman for the Palestinian people.

It has become evident that responsible Palestinian circles draw a distinction between historic and immediate rights. Even these immediate rights vary between the ultimate, the moderate and the minimum. It is also clear that the minimum is Palestinian sovereignty over the Jordan's Western Bank, the Gaza Strip and Al Hema, in addition to self-determination rights inclusive of Palestinian masses on the Eastern Bank about 70% of the population.

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COLONEL BENDRIK

By Hamdy Fouad

Swedish Colonel Bendrik yesterday was collecting his personal papers from the Heliopolis office he occupied for the past year. He sent a cable to his family in Stockholm informing them he will be returning again to the Swedish army after three years in the service of the U.N. Truce Supervisory Organisation spent between Cairo and Damascus.

Colonel Bendrik had made an October 29 Press Conference statement following which his Finnish superior, interim commander of the U.N. Emergency Force General Ensio Siilseavuo, chose to sacrifice him for the sake of maintaining the neutrality of the blue helmets.

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The exact quotes of the Swedish Colonel at the press conference are then cited, word for word. It is clear from the statements that he emphasized he can not speak about political issues and underlines that he would be up to the U.N. Secretary General himself to define the tasks of the emergency force.

Colonel Bendrik told me he regretted having to leave his job, which he loved. He said he felt his words at the press conference "had been exploited."

The Colonel packed his belongings and bade farewell to Egyptian officiale he had worked with him during the past period. They alarmed their esteem for him.

The decision to sacrifice Bendrik was communicated to General Siilsavuo while he was in Jerusalem, after having flown there from Cairo and after he had dispatched to the Secretary General the text of Bendrik's statement.

Israel spoke as if she found Bendrik's statement -- after misquoting it -- testimony in her own favour. She knew he was an officer not engaged in politics; that the Swedish Colonel has been the victim of her own refusal to provide a map defining the position of troops on October 22.

AL AHRAM p. 3

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## HOW TO MAKE PETROLEUM A SHARP WEAPON

Abdullah El Taniki. Internation arab petroleum authority, provides detailed statistics under this headline about the exact standing of Arab petroleum for various world regions.

Western Europe and Japan, with 497.5 million tons and 155 million tons respectively, are the main importers of Arab oil, followed by the U.S. (40 million tons) and the rest of the world (160 million tons).

Total direct U.S. imports of Arab Petroleum amount to only 4.7% of America's 17 million B/D daily consumption. This is a very misleading figure however, because although U.S. oil firms channel a small portion of Arab oil output directly to the U.S., they have established refinery networks in Western Europe, Japan and other parts of the world in which they process other quantities of Arab oil.

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Since Western Europe has a vast refining capacity in excess of her actual needs, it is expected that this will be used to make up for what America may lose from the oil boycott.

In order to prove to the whole world we are serious about preventing Arab oil from reaching America and Holland, West must not allow excess amounts to reach other countries. This could be done on the basis of calculating the actual average consumption of each country over the past two years.

This is a very important point because Western Europe, for instance, has a refining capacity in excess of her actual consumption by 2.9 million B/D.

All this excess amount will be going to the United States if Europe imports quantities from Arab petroleum sufficient to cover her full refining capacity.

Holland has a refining capacity of 1,633,800 B/D while her actual consumption is only 716,000 B/D — a surplus of 927,800 B/D. The corresponding figures for Italy are 3,630,000, 2,005,000 and an excess of 1,625,000. These two countries are followed by France and England. As for West Germany and Japan, their refining capacity is below their actual local consumption.

Arab petroleum is a weapon sharper than all their weapons. If we agree on using it, then we shall achieve an honourable peace for ourselves and future generations and plant the nucleus of a future great power.

AL AHRAM p. 5
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BRIEFS

- Fahmy Hussein writes in Rose El Youssef that the Arab countries should open their doors for the return of Jewish citizens who emigrated to Israel. Cairo itself should detonate this bid after the Arabs passively contributed to expansion of Israel by responding to Zionist provocations about race. The Arabs may have refrained in the past from championing such a call because of their defeat, but they can now speak freely from a position of strength.

- Mustapha El Husseini publishes in Rose El Youssef a detailed interpretive account of Dr. Henry Kissinger's statements on the Middle East, past and recent. From almost total lack of interest Kissinger was taken by surprise when the dormant crisis exploded, "but this did not prevent him from dealing with it in competency expected from him". Kissinger's recent public statements affirm that the U.S. believes circumstances which led to the October war, most importantly Israeli occupation of Arab territories, can not be allowed to continue. But the unannounced dialogue he has had in Israel may indicate friction between this point of view and a desire to put Israel in a further position of strength.

- Salah Hafez addresses an open message to the people of Holland in Rose El Youssef. The Arabs love Rembrandt, windmills, Dutch cheese and the smiling girl on tins of dutch powdered milk. They are not happy about having to prevent Dutch citizens from motoring on Sundays or denying Dutch children warmth in winter. But the Arabs too have children and families, and all they want to do is stop their fuel from being returned to them in the form of bullets, Napalm and Contributions to Israel.

Hafez regrets he can not write Flemish, and wonders if somebody will translate the words to the people of Holland. "Perhaps this will help in awakening the conscience of the Dutch after having lived for a quarter of a century listening to and understanding only Hebrew".

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