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Last week Kissinger was heavily engaged in another round of Middle East shuttle diplomacy, flying not only between Damascus and Jerusalem but also back to Egypt to give Sadat progress reports. Kissinger seemed to be making progress, but slowly. He met in Cyprus with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who indicated that Moscow would not oppose his peacemaking endeavors. The Israelis agreed to give up more captured territory on the Golan Heights, and the Syrians dropped rigid demands for a specific timetable for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territory. At week's end the likelihood of a disengagement deal...
Aware of Moscow's feeling, Kissinger prefaced his fifth Middle East trip in seven months last week with a stopover in Geneva for nine hours of discussions with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. The Secretary flew on to Algiers for brief talks with President Houari Boumedienne with only a negative promise from Gromyko. The Russians did not endorse any particular series of disengagement proposals. They merely agreed, one U.S. official reported later, "not to work against the concept of disengagement...
...days later] after we were already in the air flying toward Paris for the [four-power] conference with Eisenhower, [Foreign Minister] Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko, Malinovsky and I began to think over the situation. We felt our responsibility-and the tension that went with it-more acutely than ever before. We were haunted by the fact that just prior to this meeting, the United States had dared to send its U-2 reconnaissance plane against us. It was as though the Americans had deliberately tried to place a time bomb under the meeting, set to go off just as we were...
...promise of U.S. accommodation with the Arabs, there were plenty of pitfalls to make Kissinger cautious about what he could accomplish on a trip to settle Israeli-Syrian disengagement. It was to commence in Geneva with a conference with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and then take the Secretary to Algiers, Cairo, Kuwait, Damascus and Jerusalem. Obstructions anywhere along the way could threaten Kissinger's success...
...million. The Kurdish guerrilla army, called Pesh Merga (which means "facing death"), is led by a tenacious nationalist, Mulla Mustafa Barzani, 75. It numbers about 40,000 regulars. Iraq can draw on a 90,000-man army that is well equipped and advised by the Soviet Union; Defense Minister Andrei Grechko flew to Baghdad for consultations soon after the negotiations between the government and the Kurds broke...