WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7,1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE 'T US..-Russian Cooperation'Only'Solution to Crisit By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press News Analyst If the major powers have learn- ed any lesson from years of end- less crisis in the Middle East, there is only one way out of today's situation. Once again, the Rus- sians and Americans will have to find common ground to avoid the threat of a new showdown threat- ening World War III. That happened 11 years ago, when the feeling in many a world capital was that nuclear war was close. Moscow and Washington were snarling at one another in 1956, but circumstances drew them' together despite themselves. Today Soviet policy may stand to gain from the war crisis, but the cost again could be more than the gains would warrant. The les- sons of Suez are fresh in the minds of both Soviet and Amer- ican leaders. The Suez Canal is closed again. The Arabs again move to stop the flow of their oil westward. West- ern Europe again looks at a build- ing oil crsis. In those terrifying days of the fall of 1956, while a revolution in Communist Hungary was being crushed by enormous Soviet fire power, the specter of general war faded only when the United States and the Soviet Union in effect as- sumed the responsibility of their great nuclear power. Today's Middle East war in real- ity is just another stage of endless crisis. This phase of it can be dated to 1955. In began in the Gaza Strip, a narrow, disputed piece of real estate, Egyptian occupied since the 1948 Palestine War. It teemed with bitter refugees from Palestine, whose fedayeen - commando- units staged frequent raids on Is- raeli territory. On Feb. 28, 1955, Israeli units launched massive re- taliation and humiliated Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. Nasser turned to the Communist bloc for arms. The Kremlin under Nikita S. Khrushchev saw an op- portunity to move forcefully into the Middle East. Communist response was swift, and the West was shocked by the extent of it: $450 million worth of arms to Egypt, $100 million worth to Syria, in exchange for cotton. There was a prospect of a pre- ventive war, though Israel denied ever harboring such an intent. Then came another humiliation for Nasser. He had his heart set on a high dam at Aswan to re- claim arable land. The Russians had offered to foot the whole bill of $1.3 billion, repayable over 60 years. Evidently, Washington be- lieved the Russians could not do it and would have to back away. Nasser said it was still not too late for the World Bank to make the loan, without conditions. The United States, instead de- livered what Nasser considered a calculated insult to Cairo. It said the dam would not be feasible because -Egyptians could not as- sure success of the program. Angry, Nasser turned to the Russians. At the same time, he announced nationalization of the Suez Canal, which had been op- erated by British-French interests under a concession due to end in 1968. Britain's Conservative govern- ment seemed sure Nasser intended expansion in the Middle East in partnership w i t h communism. London began talks with Paris on how to counter him. The French, too, were angry, since Nasser was backing a revolt in Algeria. At the time 80,000 British troops remained in the canal zone. Nasser ordered them out. Britain and France began to plan an invasion in association with Israel. The United States, alarmed, said it would not support the use of force. By mid-September, 80,000 troops from British and French bases had assembled in Malta. Israel, aided in a build-up by France, was ready for war. The attack date was set for late October. The plan was to defend the canal. Britain and France then would issue an ulti- matum to both sides to cease-fire. The Egyptians were routed, but the whole plan was transparently clear to the rest of the world. Meanwhile, Hungary had ex- ploded. Despite the tensions this created, Washington and Moscow were suddenly drawn together by an identical interest: the avoid- ance of general war. Both de- manded and forced the with- drawal of invading troops in the Mideast. Until the specter of war loomed large, the Soviet Union had tried to exploit the Middle East situ- ation to its own advantage. It seems Moscow's aim up to now has been to squeeze out of the situation every last bit of ad- vantage and to entrench itself among nations of 100 million peo- Pie sitting on seas of oil and astride strategic waterways. Once again the cost would out- weigh the advantages. An accident could bring a showdown even more serious than the missile crisis over Cuba in 1962. Western diplomats believe that the Arabs are trying hard to entice the Russians into active participa- tion. From this grow such things as the Arab charges that Amer- ican and British planes were pro- viding cover for Israeli forces. For America the war comes at the worst possible time, when it is up to its ears in Vietnam. But for the Soviet Union the risks of supporting its words and ma- neuvers are great. rabi Ties U.S. Breaks Its Ties With Arabs Action Follows Charge Of U.S.-British Aid To Israel During War O- WASHINGTON (P)-The United States and Egypt severed diplo- matic relations yesterday. And, as the Mideast crisis deepened, steps were taken for evacuation of thousands of Americans from the danger zone. Within half an hour after being , notified that Egypt had withdrawn its recognition of the U.S. govern- ment, the State Department sum- moned the Egyptian ambassador to make the action reciprocal. Cairo Radio charged U.S. planes had gone to the aid of Israel in the two-day Mideast war-an ac- cusation vigorously denied in Washington. Algeria Algeria followed Egypt last night in breaking diplomatic rela- tions with the United States. "The government of Algeria has informed our ambassador in Al- giers that they are breaking dip- lomatic relations with the United States," a State Department spokesman said in a 6 p.m. EDT announcement. The United States was taking immediate reciprocal action, the spokesman added. The United States took its re- ciprocal move-breaking relations with Algeria-by calling the Al- gerian ambasador in Washington to the State Department. Meanwhile, all American na- tionals were ordered yesterday to leave Egypt, the Nasser govern- ment announced. Evacuation American citizens were asked to gather in a hotel on the Nile wat- erfront and one other main hotel. American correspondents in the capital were among those ordered to get out. In Damascus, Syria asked all Americans to get out of that country. A State Department official said last night that U.S. embassies and consulates in the Middle East are being, authorized to charter commercial shipping to evacuate some 12,000 Americans. Officials said there is no truth to reports that surface units of the U.S. 6th fleet have been in- structed to stand by for the evacu- ation. Americans in Egypt are being sent by bus, train and automobile to Alexandria to await chartered commercial ships. The port of Tunis was reported to be another point of departure. State Department authorities estimate there are 12,000 Ameri- cans left in the most active war zone of Egypt, Jordan, Israel. Yemen And from Cairo came a report that the Republic of Yemen also decided to sever relations with the United States. The U.S. charge d'affaires was asked to leave Ye- men within 48 hours. A broadcast from Syria said that government, too, was breaking its relations with the United States. And an official announcement in Khartoum said the Sudan gov- ernment has severed diplomatic relations with the United States and Britain. T~A"~tl 19Al TT A vvi14fs.v Sever Diplomatic MIDDLE EAST CRISIS: soviet Union Conducts Secret Diplomatic Soundings on War with U. S., Britain -Associated Press Egyptians were forced to desert trucks, equipment and trenches at Rafah in the Gaza Strip yester- day as Israeli troops advanced. Israel claimed vic tories while Egypt broke diplomatic relations with the United States, charging that the U.S. is assisting Israel. Arab Oil Nations Begin Boycott Of, West for Support of Israel Rusk De nies Charges Of Israeli Aid Says Arabs Creating Difficulties for U.S. In Middle East Crisis WASHINGTON (P) - Secretary of State Dean Rusk yesterday de- nounced Cairo's accusations that U.S. planes are helping Israel in the Middle East conflict. In rejecting Cairo's charge of intervention, Rusk touched indi- rectly on the administration's con- cern about possible violence di- rected at U.S. citizens and prop- erty in Arab countries. "I think they are trying to cre- ate difficulties for Americans in the Near East," Rusk said in an- swer to a question. Mobs assaulted American and British embassies in Beirut, Lebanon, and marched on the U.S. Embassy in Cairo after the intervention charges were air- ed by Cairo radio. These charges are utterly and wholly false," the secretary said. "We can only conclude this was a malicious charge known to be false and therefore invented for some purpose yet to be ascer- tained." The State Deparment, in a note delivered in predawn hours to the Egyptian Embassy here, also said, "there has been no participation in any way by U.S. aircraft or naval units. None are or have been in the area." The powerful U.S. 6th Fleet was in the eastern Mediterranean, hundreds of miles from the war zone, officials said. The Egyptian high command claimed it had indisputable proof that American and British naval planes were engaged in large-scale support of Israel. The U.S. and British government denied the charge. Nasser said in a message to Arab leaders that intervention of Brit- ish and Americans planes in Jor- dan and Egypt "had been as- certained." MOSCOW OP)-The Soviet Union did not discuss with Kozyrev the conducted secret diplomatic sound- Arab charges of British and Amer- ings on the Middle East war yes- ican planes aiding Israel. Both terday while maintaining strict Washington and London have silence on an apparent Arab bid emphatically denied the charges. for Soviet aid. A British spoKesman described The Soviet press, including the the ambassador's 20-minute meet- government newspaper Izvestia, ing with Kozyrev as "part of the made no mention of Arab chargesc that U.S. and British planes were continuing contact on the Middle aiding Israel. East question." Diplomats here viewed the Arab A U.S. Embassy spokesman re- charges as an implied appeal for fused comment when asked if a Soviet aid. Some saw the charges U.S. representation had made a as an attempt to lure the Russians into the crsis to stave off a possi- ble Arab defeat. State m According to these sources, the 114 Soviet silence on the issue showed a Kremlin reluctance to get di- rectly involved in the war. S eek I ig j Meanwhile the Soviet Union continued diplomatic soundings behind closed doors. CANJILON. N.M. (A)-A 500- Premier Alexei N. Kosygin met man State Police and National with Egyptian Ambassador Mo- Guard army were in the hills and hammed Morad Ghaleb in the canyons of the. Carson National Kremlin. The British ambassador, Forest yesterday trying to flush Sir Geoffrey Harrison, called on out a band of armed Spanish- Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister American fugitives. Semyon P. Kozyrev. State Police Chief Joe Black British sources said Harrison said the more than 30 fugitives' orldews Roundup BEIRUT, Lebanon ()-Arab na- tions launched an oil squeeze on the United States and Britain yes- terday after Egypt's high com- mand charged that carrier-based U.S. and British navy planes were fighting in support of Israel. Although the Egyptian charge was denied quickly and emphatic- ally by the U.S. and British gov- ernments, there were these ac- tions: Developments * Two major producers, Kuwait and Iraq, cut off the sale of oil to Britain and the United States. * Algeria announced a similar decision, though so far as is known, no Algerian oil goes direct- ly to either country. In addition, Algeria said "all British and American companies are placed under control of the state.." There have been investments from both command banned the loading of in Algerian oil fields. * In Beirut, the Lebanese high any tankers with oil until further notice. The Western-owned Iraqi Petroleum Co. loads oil from Iraqi fields at Tripoli, north of Beirut. The Trans-Arabian Pipeline Co. loads oil from Saudi Arabia at Sidon, south of the Lebanese capi- tal. * Radio Damascus announced that Syria joined the ban on oil shipments, and all supplying or loading of American and British tankers with oil was prohibited. * The Arab Labor Federation called for "workers all over the Arab world" to wreck Western oil facilities. Radio Cairo urged: "0 Arabs, destroy America's in- stallations and sabotage its in- terests." similar call on the Soviet Foreign Ministry. The spokesman agreed that the possibility was not ex- cluded. Izvestia also repeated demands made in a Soviet government statement Monday that Israel "immediately and unconditional- ly" stop all military actions against the Arabs and withdraw behind truce lines as an urgent first step to ending the war. It continued to charge Israel with aggression. ce, Guards assv Band CC GTn Representatives of oilproducing Arab nations decided at a meeting in Baghdad Monday they would stop selling oil to any foreign country that aided Israel in the war. There was speculation that Saudi Arabia and perhaps Libya would join in the ban. The story broadcast from Cairo was that planes from U.S. and British aircraft carriers attacked Arab forces in Jordan and pro- vided an air umbrella over Israel on the Egyptian front. King Hussein of Jordan, who signed a mutual defense pact with President Gamal Abdel Nasser May 30 in a reversal of months :f acrimony, was identified as the source. Radio Cairo said Hussein phoned Nasser early in the day and re- ported Jordanian radar networks had detected the American and British activity. It did not report how the nationality of the planes was determined, but the Egyptian high command said the proof was complete. Denials The United States and Britain, which have announced neutrality in the conflict, issued immediate denials. "This is not so," a Foreign Of- fice spokesman said in London. The U.S. State Department de- clared: "Such allegations are to- tally false and fabricated. There has been no participation in any way by U.S. aircraft or naval units. None are or have been in the area." As to the effects of the cut-off, the war isn't likely to cause an oil shortage in the United States. If prolonged and broadened, how- ever, it could cut deeply into sup- plies of Western Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Oil Slack Oil from all the Arab countries made up only about 400,000 of the 12 million barrels of crude oil con- sumed daily in the United States in 1966. American wells could more than take up the slack. On the other hand, Western Europe gets about 75 per cent of its oil from the Arab countries. A sidelight concerns the Viet- nam war. The Defense Depart- ment said a substantial part of the petroleum supplies the United States is now using in Southeast Asia comes from the Middle East. It add-: "However, sufficient alter- nate supplies are available and would be used if necessary." By The Associated Press NEW YORK-The stock market recovered yesterday almost all of the steep loss sustained, Monday in jittery trading at the outbreak of te Middle East war. Trading was active. Brokers attributed the rebound to reports of Israeli victories over Arab forces which they said en- couraged investors to think the United States will not become in- volved. *"The Israeli victories really turned the market around very strongly," one Wall Streeter said. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks closed up 14.94 points gt 862.71, its widest gain since a rise of 19.54 on Oct. 12, 1966. The average had closed down 15.54 points Monday. The average price per share of all common stock traded on the New York Stock Exchange. S* * * has been accused of being an enemy of Mao Tse-tung, was brought before Red Chinese kan- garoo courts of the army, 'navy, air force and military school last month, a Japanese report from Peking said yesterday. Asahi's Peking-based correspon- dent said this was reported in a series of photographs of Lo and other disgraced anti-Maoists army leaders posted on the walls of Pe- king. WASHINGTON - The Federel Communications Commission is trying to determine whether ra- diotelephone calls from wounded servicemen in the Vietnam area are being jammed deliberately by a ham operator in the Watts area of Los Angeles. As a result of complaints from other amateur operators, including a retired Marine Corps general, the agency said it has started close monitoring of West Coast radio transmissions. were led by Reies Lopez Tijerina in a shooting raid late Monday against the courthouse at Tierra Amarilla, north of Canjilon. The armed band fled into the forest after holding the court- house about two hours. Two of- ficers were shot and wounded and about 20 persons held hostage during the raid. Tijerina, about 40, is the leader of a militant effort to press claims to thousands of acres in northern New Mexico, most of it national forest lands, under old Spanish land grants. While the search army worked its way through a 2,500 square mile area of forest and found little activity, State Police did find and arrest one of the Tijerina organ- ization's leaders, Jerry Noll of Albuquerque. Chief Black said Noll, found in Navajo Canyon sout of Canjilon, was taken to Santa Fe and jailed. Noll, one of five men under fed- eral charges involving a camp- ground takeover last October, had been sought several weeks on a federal warrant. Noll and Tijerina generally stay- ed close together, Chief Black said, and more searchers were sent into the Navajo Canyon area. The chief said it might take a few days to run down the fugitives. He said every bush, trail, cabin and canyon in the forest would be checked. He said a few of the fugitives might have slipped out of the area and could be working their way south. TOKYO-Gen. Lo former army chief of Jui-ching, staff who Use Our Convenient Michigan DalAdForm ~. 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