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Middle East Review of International Affairs
The Russians are Going: Sadat, Nixon and the Soviet Presence in Egypt, 1970-1971
by Craig A. Daigle
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Abstract
New evidence reveals that the United States was well aware of Sadat's intention to remove the Soviet military presence from Egypt and took steps over the summer of 1971 to ensure this end. We now know that President Nixon's decision to suspend the supply of aircrafts to Israel at the end of June and his decision to press for reopening the Suez Canal as part of an interim agreement between Egypt and Israel had as much to do with getting Soviets out of Egypt as it did with finding a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel.
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Note *: Craig A. Daigle is a Ph.D. student in the history department at George Washington University. He is currently working on a study of William P. Rogers as Secretary of State during the Nixon administration. Mr. Daigle wishes to thank David Geyer, Walter Hixon, Timothy Naftali, Christopher Morrison, and James G. Hershberg for their comments on earlier drafts of this article. Back