West Bank Poetess-nationalist Says Nasser Anticipates U.S. Foreign Policy Change

A West Bank resident who had an audience with President Gamal Abdul Nasser in his Cairo home reported today that the Egyptian leader had full confidence that America’s policy toward the Arab states and Israel will change when President-elect Nixon enters the White House next month. According to Miss Fadua Touqan, a poetess and Palestinian nationalist figure who lives in Nablus, Col. Nasser “trusts”Mr. Nixon and believes that new American policies will force Israel to withdraw from all territories occupied In the June, 1967 war. She said that Col. Nasser had also regained complete confidence in the Egyptian Army which he said was now at full strength.