Arabs hint at oil weapon

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33610, 12 August 1974, Page 13

Arabs hint at oil weapon

r.V Z P A.-Reuter— Copyright) WASHINGTON, August 11. International messages of congratulations for the new President of the L nited States. Mr Gerald Ford, poured into Washington today.

Pope Paul and the Unitec Nations Secretary-Genera Id Kurt Waldheim) wen amone the well-wishers anc 1 message from the Sone Present 8 (Mr Nikolai Pod Romv) expressed confident about the future of Unitec States-Soviet relations But in the Middle East Arab commentators expressed fears about Mi F rd’s possible policiesjn the region and some hinted thai od might have to be usee a- a weapon again Diplomatic observers i Cairo said that Preside" Sadat, who warmlv „ e ." d °f h ep M- Nixon’s peace role* her Mr Nixon visited Egypt t w June, was certain to g thought to fears that Mi Ford might not be as favour able towards the Arab

d Kuwait papers said in idenil tical editorials: “There is still e no assurance that (Mr Ford) d will follow the course of *t understanding and perceiving J- the new facts of the region.” :e The papers hinted the oil id weapon may have to be rei invoked. 1,, The Soviet press published c- detailed coverage of Presi[r dent Ford’s assumption of; e office, which observers sawi it as reflecting the Kremlin’s d confidence that he would I continue the previous Admin-I n istration’s policy of Eastit West detente. d The American Ambassador n (Mr Walter Stoessel) den livered a message from the ■e President to the Communist lr Partv leader. Mr Leonid r-: Brezhnev, an Embassy i. spokesman said.