NOVEMBER 6, 1973

ROUND-UP 2

In Tel Aviv, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir presided over an emergency and important meeting of the Cabinet immediately following her arrival. Maariv and Yideot Aharonot, the two Israeli evening papers speculated that the Israeli Government might find itself obliged to take important and difficult decisions.

Meir had told the latter paper's correspondent in Washington just before her departure that she had no encouraging news to give the Israelis and that points of difference between Israel and the U.S.A. particularly in regard to withdrawal to October 22 lines still stood.

Following are the papers' banner headlines:

**Al Abram :**
DETAILED REPORT TO PRESIDENT BY FM FOLLOWING HIS ARRIVAL FROM WASHINGTON (banner)

Ismail Returned To Cairo Last Night To Put Before The President The Outcome Of His Lengthy Talks With Nixon And Kissinger

World's Attention Centred On President El Sadat's Meeting Tonight With U.S. Secretary of State

Israeli Cabinet Held Emergency Meeting Immediately Following Meir's Return In Order To Take Decisions Described By Tel Aviv Press As Difficult

Reports From Front Indicate That Big Forces On Both Sides Are Standing At Maximum Alert.

**Al Akhbar :**
DECISIVE AND DANGER-FRAUGHT WEEK (red banner)

Fate Of Peace And War To Be Decided Any Day Now

World Capital Say Cease-Fire Has Become Brittle And Explosion Expected

U.S. Defence Secretary: Arming Of Israel Depleted U.S. Arsenal's Stocks

Kissinger To Arrive In Cairo Today After Stop In Riyadh And Tunis

Nixon Speaks To Kissinger On Telephone 40 Minutes Before Trip

Differing Speculation On U.S. Stand And Peace Talks.

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["NOVEMBER 6, 1973", "ROUND_UP 3", "Al Gombouria: COMING FEW DAYS ARE DECISIVE (red banner)", "News Agencies Affirm Middle East Passing\nThrough Decisive Week After Israel's\nProcrastination About Withdrawal To October\n22 Lines", "Meir Declares U.S.-Israeli Friendship Still\nStrong And Holds Special Meeting With Dayan\nImmediately Following Her Return", "Tel Aviv Expects Outbreak Of Fighting At any\nMoment And Israeli Press Demands That Israel\nDeal First Blow In War.", "Reports on the resolutions adopted by the Arab Petrs.\nMinisters are reported prominently on the front-pages of\nthree papers.", "Arab Foreign Affairs Minister will meet shortly to\ndecide the hostile countries to which the oil embargo will\nbe applied.", "Also reported prominently are the talks held by\nAlgerian President Houari Boumedienne in Kuwait and Saudi\nArabia following his talks in Damascus and Baghdad.", "The Algerian President is now calling Arab Kings\nand Presidents to an urgent summit conference in Algiers.", "Libyan President Moammar El Gaddafi's talks in\nDamascus in connection with the consolidation of the\nliberation war are reported in the same stories.", "The Egyptian military spokesman yesterday declared\nthat Egyptian civilians in the area occupied by the enemy\nwest of the Suez Canal had every right to resist the enemy.", "-/-'}, "SF/MF"]

NOVEMBER 6, 1973

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Egyptian Official Spokesman Ahmed Anis denied that Egypt had objected to the presence of U.S. observers and said that Israel was looking for a pretext to launch a further military aggression.

Presidential Adviser Dr. Mohamed Hassan El Zayyat yesterday delivered to French President Georges Pompidou a message from President El Sadat dealing with the latest developments of the Middle East situation.

El Zayyat told the French President that a difficult situation would arise in the event that the USA did not make proposals calling for the immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces to October 22 lines preliminary to an urgent Israeli withdrawal from all the occupied territories.

Dr. El Zayyat reassured President Pompidou stating that France had no need to entertain any concern regarding oil supplies.

The Presidential Adviser will leave Paris tomorrow for London for a similar series of meetings with the British Government.

Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky criticized the war mentality which obsessed the Israeli military establishment and leaders. The Middle East situation could not be settled, he added, except by the withdrawal of the Israeli forces from the occupied Arab territories.

Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Abba Eban said before leaving Tel Aviv for Rome yesterday that the blockade at Bab El Mandab Straits would be very serious in the event that a political settlement of the Middle East could not be reached immediately.

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NOVEMBER 6, 1973

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Syrian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Abdel Hafiz Khadam declared in Damascus that Syria and Egypt firmly rejected the idea of direct negotiations between the Arabs and Israel together with any talk about relinquishing a grain of Arab soil.

Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito sent messages to Soviet Leader Brezhnev, Syrian President El Assad, U.S. President Nixon and French President Pompidou.

Reports on the intensifying petroleum shortage in Europe and America appear on the front pages of the papers.

Arab League Secretary General Mahmoud Riad reiterated his call for an urgent Arab summit conference and called for the preservation of the unity of the Arab nation forged by the war.

(The Editor)

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