The Israeli and American embassies in Cairo denied Sunday that any official request had been made by the U.S. to Egypt for use of the two military airfields in Sinai that Israel will evacuate when it completes its departure from the peninsula in 1982. The denials were issued after Egypt’s Deputy Premier, Fouod Moheiddin, declared in Parliament Sunday that Israel and the U.S. had “insisted” on the use of the airfields by U.S. forces. He said this was categorically rejected by the Egyptian government.
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