Nine of the Arab League’s 13 member states have accepted a proposal by President Nasser of Egypt for a summit meeting in Cairo to discuss means of halting Israel’s plans to tap the Jordan River for its Negev irrigation project, it was reported here today from Egypt.
Nasser issued the call for a meeting to consider the possibility of action to bar Israel from carrying out its multi-million dollar plan, scheduled to get underway this spring. Arab countries on the Jordan River have threatened for years that they would go to war if Israel initiated the program.
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