It's a sentiment Sadat may also be privately using to describe the effects on his news that Carter's desert fiasco had been launched from an Egyptian air base on the outskirts of Cairo This revelation originated with a briet news item tirst broadcast al Friday by, enough, the state-controlled Israel KOTO.
The Egyptian Minister Defence categorically denied ICOOIL. •ul bacal mms relusca to deny the claim, repeating instead his earlier offer of facilities to help the Americans in a rescue attempt. He urged the Carter administration to try again.
Just how surprising is this specwars it would certainly have been inconceivable for future of the military personnel to have been on Lovoual LeTTLOrY perhaps as advisors to the Israeli occupying forces.
Ally ironically But from the time Anwar Sadat orderea tne expulsion or soviel advisers in the early '70s, come increasingly under American mulence to me pow were March • it has 'in effect renlaced Iran as the most dependable US But allies don't these days. US is to Egypt making it top of the league for receipt of military specialist put it: "It's just of 1978, armed our asked 600 to 1,000 f ombers, and other tankers, and troop carriers dispatch 'non-NATO President Carter's plans for a Rapid that stretch the small AFRICA Iraq anc the Coll balest reserves. The of the Us and its petroleum of the Iran and balance armed has been 'Rapid the effectively like ran were paying for it.
American so did the pace of US involvement in Egypt. except tian officials agree,' 'that Washington's commitment to Egypt, particularly quickly in primarilv because of Washington's attempt to replace strategic friend , Egypt has and evel forces Herald Tribune on 30 aid programme because of Sadat's willingness to co-operate.
powerful and ally in the Middle Betrayal come cheap Despite massive currently from the Arab world, he total betrayal oi ine palestiniar aid. He Egyptian Iorces The 82nd Airborne ' Division (17,900 IRAQ 700 cargo planes Baphdad"
2 to 4 aircraft carrier groups Command vessel SAUDI ARAB except the ramans Causes possible Egypt has trained As the Iranian crisis deepened co, US diplomats and Egyp- Israel. Egypt wrote cody military, Icecul developments Iran in the Middle East Dovic F-16s intervened in Afghanistan Februarv The US felt able to step up its billion over five years.
opposition to provide F-15 fighters, signed a with Israel WICH IS c prepared and alls SOVIET UNION States, making military aid to them without direct US help.
and dispatched advisers to MorocZaire, and Oman.
As part of the peace treaty with was allocated $1.5 Base billion in military aid, including 35 *-4E nantom Jets ana improvec Hawk anti-aircraft missiles. AWACS flal and control Algnanistan Ine amount ana quall ty of aid has risen sharply.
Pentagon most expensive agreed to provide 40 F-16 fighters and 250 M-60A3 tanks as part of Carter also informed the Egyp- presumably abortive raid was ons witness pancine the most advanced jet in the US arsenal. Sadat's American Sadat's desire to please. March he drove in person to Cairo On Egypt?
* IRAN шої ногто UNITED ARAB EMIRATES and his family when they arrived from Panama. After escorting the exiled dictator to hospital, Sadat assigned him a 15-strong team o Egypt's best doctors.
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Late last year Sadat allowed US (airborne warning and ments.' planes with about 250 US person Food nel to participate in joint training exercises at an Egyptian air base at The aircraft plane in essene $135m the is packed with electronic gea and was used several times in exercises with the US fleet in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf region practice runs for the What effect will the news of participation the nations. adventure have in The opposition has condemned integral to Increased SOVIET UNION Banraın appear the operation and Egyptian participation, and according to the Guardian, "there is little support lot tresident carter in tae strcel ' "'Are they going to push us in to a war over the Shah?" didn't Carter keen the Shah in hi own country or send him back to d 'Why did Sadat invite here?" were typical Memories are still fresh of the food riots which took Egypt three years ago. As Edward Cody explained: 'US and Europeas diplomats in the Middle East ques tion the wisdom of investing so heavily in Egypt • after the Ira experienc — as a strategic partner and as the only channel for resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict despite opposition by other Arab After the Iran raid this policy is likely to be put to the test, and this autumn may well see the end of two presidents, not one be uncovered in eight other places.
Other less-publicised elements of what could emerge as the Carter Doctrine are Many potential US armed inter vention. US naval presenc in the region throughout the addition of two destroyers to the three ship Middle East Task Force ported in and carrier task forces now regularly in the Indian Ocean waters off the Gulf.
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'HARD LUCK.' That was Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's reaction to the failure of the American raid on Iran. Pace