Officials reported today that Dr. Gunnar Jarring, the special United Nations Middle East emissary, was expected here Tuesday after a meeting tomorrow in Teheran with UN Secretary General U Thant. The officials declined to comment on the stage in the Jarring efforts which led him to seek the meeting with Thant.
The latest reports from Cairo and Amman suggested some softening of the Arab stand which raised hopes for the possibility of the talks which Dr. Jarring is seeking to arrange. However, the officials also noted Egyptian President Nasser’s latest speech during the weekend in which he reiterated his support for the terrorist gangs infiltrating Israel and predicted another war.
(The Cairo correspondent of the Washington Star reported from the Egyptian capital that Dr. Jarring’s mission “appears to be heading toward an inglorious end” because Egyptian officials seemed to feel that the mission could serve little further purpose. Correspondent Andrew Borowiec quoted Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmud Riad as declaring “we are not ready to surrender a single inch of Arab land” and that Egypt would insist that Israel declare its readiness to withdraw its forces from all occupied territory.)
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