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144. Memorandum of Conversation Between the President’s Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Rostow ) and the United Arab Republic Ambassador ( Kamel )

action from Cairo. I emphasized that the crucial element in any consortium arrangement was the organization of a domestic program that was persuasive to the major lending countries and to such institutions as the IBRD , citing Indian, Pakistani, and Nigerian experience. 7. He emphasized several times that the policy of the Egyptian government was not merely independent but actively anti-Communist: in Egypt; in the Middle East; and in Africa. Despite possible differences on some issues, there was an ample area of common political interest between the U.S. and Egypt to justify a closer working r…