Ambassador Michael Comay, political advisor to Prime Minister Golda Meir on UN affairs had a meeting this afternoon with Secretary General U Thant. The meeting followed one earlier in the day between Mr. Thant and Ambassador Zayet, the head of the Egyptian delegation. The Israeli Mission scheduled a press conference at UN headquarters for Thursday morning with Ambassador Yosef Tekoah, head of the Israeli mission.
The Egyptian delegation took an unprecedented action today in distributing a press statement reporting that Egyptian forces had “repelled” an Israeli attempt on Shadwan Island. Usually, the Egyptians report Israeli “aggressions” in the form of complaints to the Security Council. This time, the Egyptian version of the episode was put out to the press directly. The Egyptian report asserted the island was uninhabited and housed “a lighthouse and an old British made radar station for the guidance of shipping.” According to the Egyptian version the Israelis failed both Thursday and Friday despite heavy numerical superiority “to gain control over the island.” The release said similar actions could be expected “in battles the aim of which is to demoralize the people of the UAR and bring them to submission.”
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