The questions of the Jordan River water diversion plans and United States supply of arms to Israel will not be discussed, it was said here today, with Phillips Talbot, Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of State, who is scheduled to arrive here tomorrow for 48-hour visit.
The visit by the high State Department official, who is in charge of Middle East affairs, will be informal, and no agenda for discussions has been set, Israel Government sources declared here today. It was indicated that the Talbot talks will not deal with specific issues which are currently being discussed “on a practical level” between Israel and the United States. These issues, it was said, include the water diversion plans and supply of arms.
(In New York, the news magazine, Newsweek, reported today that “the United States was negotiating a deal with Israel, calling for direct shipment of American munitions.” According to the publication, the Israelis are expected “to get significantly more weapons from the U.S. directly than they were getting through Germany” to balance the Russian shipments of planes and missiles to Egypt.)
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