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...East influence they lost last year when Sadat turned to the West for support and Kissinger scored his disengagement successes. Moreover, Sadat knows he must not move too quickly lest he seem to be abandoning Syria, his principal ally in the October war. For his part, Syrian President Hafez Assad, whose forces have already been resupplied by the Soviets, believes he has a better chance of getting a satisfactory peace settlement for his country through a Geneva conference than through bilateral negotiations with Israel...
Emerging from a meeting last week with Syrian President Hafez Assad, U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim smilingly announced a notable bit of peace keeping. Assad had agreed to a six-month extension for the U.N.'s 1,250-man Disengagement Observer Force stationed on the Golan Heights...
...clear what Waldheim may have promised Assad to win his agreement, but Arab spokesmen indicated that there would soon be an intermission in step-by-step negotiations by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and a return to the full-scale Geneva Conference. Ar abs favor the conference because they could speak as a bloc and they would also be supported by a Russian voice as forceful as that of Washington. Damascus predicted resumption of Geneva talks in early January. In Cairo, they were expected to resume soon after So viet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev makes his first trip to Egypt...
...face a new war in the Middle East some time in 1975. On a more immediate problem, U.S. officials remain optimistic that the crisis attending the expiration of the U.N. mandate on the Golan Heights can be settled without serious incident. Kissinger has remained in close touch with President Assad and has received no ultimatum from him that he would not renew the mandate...
...Diplomacy. Moreover, TIME learned last week from a ranking Soviet diplomat in Damascus that a letter had recently been sent by Leonid Brezhnev to Assad asking the Syrian leader to remain calm. Brezhnev wrote that the Soviets would "make every possible effort" to have the Geneva Conference reconvene as soon as possible but probably not before the Soviet leader's visit to Syria in January. In exchange for such an assurance, the Soviet diplomat added, the Syrians were "very likely" to renew the U.N. mandate before it expires Nov. 30. To do otherwise, as the Syrians must know, would...