The Soviet Union, according to reports received here this weekend from several capitals, has prepared a new plan for settlement of the Arab-Israeli dispute and will unveil it in New York when the representatives of the Big Four powers resume their deliberations early in September.
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, it was reported, will present the plan to President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt during the latter’s visit to Moscow, in an effort to obtain his prior approval.
It was learned meanwhile that both Foreign Minister Abba Eban and Gen. Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli envoy to the United States, have criticized the United States response to a Soviet proposal on the Middle East which was presented to the Soviets by Joseph Sisco, Assistant Secretary of State, on his recent visit to Moscow. The attitude of Israel, it was indicated, is that the American response constituted a retreat from earlier United States positions on a number of points.
(Columnist Drew Pearson reported from Washington that the Central Intelligence Agency had learned that Soviet Communist Party boss Leonid Brezhnev has written a new letter to President Nasser of Egypt pledging that the Soviet Union would not consider a Middle East solution unacceptable to the Arabs.
He said that “Brezhnev’s personal letter was written July 21” four days after the State Department’s bouncy, bustling Joseph Sisco left Moscow where he tried to negotiate a Middle East agreement with Soviet leaders.)
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