Joseph S. Sisco, Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs, conferred today with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin. Their meeting was described by State Department officials as a continuation of the bilateral U.S.-Soviet talks that are being held concurrently with the Big Four Mideast talks in New York and the diplomats reportedly discussed Israel’s commando raid into Egypt today which smashed targets within 60 miles of the Soviet-financed Aswan High Dam.
Highly placed U.S. officials said today that fear was growing in Government circles here that the Big Four search for peace was failing to keep pace with the escalating military situation in the Mideast. As a result, they said, the bilateral American-Soviet talks were being intensified. Top officials said Washington has now moved into “very intensive exploration” with the Soviet Union in search of a common ground by which the two major powers can bring about an Arab-Israeli disengagement and peace settlement.
(In Britain, the Foreign Office termed the strikes “yet another episode in the sequence of violence in the Middle East which we have deplored on many occasions.”)
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