FIVE LEADERS ARRIVING TOGETHER FOR TALKS; ARAB LEADERS AND ADVISERS SEATED; ARAB LEADERS LEAVE MEETING TOGE

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Background: PRESIDENT NASSER OF THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC WAS YESTERDAY HOST TO LEADERS OF FOUR OTHER ARAB STATES. THEY MET AT HIS RESIDENCE, THE KUBBAH PALACE IN CAIRO FOR TALKS ON THE PRESENT MIDDLE EAST SITUATION AND THEIR FUTURE POLICIES.
WITH PRESIDENT NASSER WERE ALGERIA'S LEADER M. HOUARI BOUMEDIENNE, DR. NUREDDIN AL ATASSI OF SYRIA, MR. ABDUL RAHMAN ARIF OF IRAQ AND MR. ISMAIL EL AZHARI OF SUDAN.
THE ARAB SUMMIT WAS HELD WHILE EGYPTIAN AND ISRAELI FORCES CLASHED IN THE SUEZ CANAL ZONE IN THE MOST FIERCE ERUPTION OF FIGHTING IN THE MIDDLE EAST SINCE THE CEASE-FIRE. IT HAPPENED ON THE EVE OF UNITED NATIONS TRUCE OBSERVATION OF THE AREA, DUE TO BEGIN TODAY.
AND AS THE FIVE ARAB LEADERS MET, POLITICAL CRISIS STRUCK IN THE OTHER LEADING ARAB STATE, JORDAN. THERE YESTERDAY, THE CABINET RESIGNED.
IN THEIR TWO MEETINGS THE ARAB LEADERS WERE INTENT ON HAMMERING OUT A JOINT POLICY AGAINST ISRAEL THE MOST URGENT POINT BEING THE REPOSSESSION OF TERRITORY OCCUPIED LAST MONTH IN THE FIVE-DAY MIDDLE EAST WAR.