Tunisian president Habib Bourguiba has predicted that the situation along the Suez Canal will not change in ten years. He also sharply criticized the Arab terrorist movement for failing to establish a leadership. His remarks, quoted over Amman Radio, were reportedly made after a week-long visit to Algeria, where he conferred at length with that nation’s president, Houari Boumediene. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was recently hosted by each of the two presidents during visits to their respective countries.
Amman Radio quoted Bourguiba as asking how the Arabs could expect changes on the Middle East when they were not united and fighting. Referring to the lack of terrorist leadership, he complained that “There is nobody to talk to there.” He also attacked the terrorists for singling out Jordan’s King Hussein for criticism because he accepted the idea of a political settlement. Egypt, too, has accepted such a settlement, Bourguiba said, by holding to Security Council Resolution 242.
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