Secretary-General Manlio Brosio of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), told a session of the organization today that “it could become a matter of great disquiet to the Alliance if the increase in Soviet naval forces in the Mediterranean, as well as of Soviet influence around its shores and in the Middle East could come to signify the prelude of a return to the cold war.”
The NATO official spoke against a background of reports that the Soviet Union was establishing a military base in Egypt. The London Daily Telegraph said today that the chief issue in negotiations now was Soviet insistence on having the last word on use of the equipment being supplied to Egypt. The Egyptians, the paper said, want the Soviet bases as protection against Israel.
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