The United Arab Republic has received three additional submarines from the Soviet bloc, according to information received by United States officials.
The new submarines reportedly arrived in Alexandria on Tuesday after a trip from Gdynia, Poland, under radio silence and off the regular sea lanes. The Soviet bloc previously provided three submarines to Egypt following the Sinai war. At that time President Eisenhower expressed a view that the submarines would not contribute toward regional peace.
According to information received here the three new undersea craft were manned by Egyptian crews. They were believed to have been constructed in either the Gdynia naval yard or at Leningrad.
(In Cairo, naval authorities of the United Arab Republic confirmed the arrival at Alexandria on Tuesday of three new submarines provided to the UAR navy by the Soviet bloc,
The newspaper Al Ahram today reported that the United Arab Republic is planning a worldwide airline using Russian TU-104 jet airliners. The Soviet Union agreed to sell the planes to the UAR on favorable terms, according to the report. UAR pilots are in Russia being trained to fly the TU-104’s.)
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