Egypt has received from Czechoslovakia 200 MIG fighter planes, 50 bombers, 200 tanks, two destroyers and six submarines, according to a breakdown of the Egypt-Czech cotton-for-arms deal reported today in the newspaper La Libre Belgique.
The specific listing of arms was included in a dispatch to the newspaper from its Bonn correspondent, George Blum. An ironic result of that deal, according to Blum, is the fact that Czechoslovakia, which is being paid for the arms with Egyptian cotton, is now competing in the world market against Egypt, by offers to sell the cotton it received from the Cairo government at prices lower than those offered by Egypt. He reports also that both East Germany and the Federal Republic of West Germany now have economic missions in Egypt, each trying to outbid the other for Egyptian trade.
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