State Department spokesman Robert McCloskey said today that Secretary of State Dean Rusk will not visit Cairo or any other point in the Near East later this month, when he attends the ministerial conference of the Central Treaty Organization in Turkey.
Reports in the press here said earlier today that Mr. Rusk is “under heavy pressure” from Israel to visit Jerusalem, to counterbalance any stop-over in Arab countries following his stay in Turkey. The State Department explained that Mr. Rusk would not have time to visit Cairo because of the pressure of developments in Washington, especially regarding the Viet Nam crisis.
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