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With world attention riveted on rising Arab-Israeli tensions, TIME has steadily increased its reporting of the people and events in the center of the conflict. Our coverage has included interviews with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Syrian President Hafez Assad and two talks with Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat, along with a cover story on the P.L.O. In these and other articles we told the Arab side of the tragic story. This week our cover focuses on embattled Israel. We present an interview with Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin, an account of the arms lineup stocked by both sides since...
...Syrian President Assad may well consent to a renewal of the U.N. mandate. Meanwhile he has made it known that he wants something "con crete" in return-for example, a sign that Israel is prepared to return to a resumed Geneva conference. Syria, like its chief supporter and arms supplier, the Soviet Union, still sees Geneva talks as the proper vehicle for achieving a final settlement. As a heavyhanded way of underscoring Moscow's support at a ticklish moment, a small Soviet naval flotilla-a cruiser, a destroyer and a submarine-dropped anchor at Latakia as the U.N. mandate...
...demanding a return to Geneva now, Assad is at odds with his principal partner in the October war, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Like the Israelis, Sadat is still committed to seeking a settlement through the Kissinger technique of phased negotiations. To all appearances, Egypt is not nearly as well prepared for a renewal of fighting as is Syria, since it has received relatively little new military equipment from the So^ viet Union since the end of the war/ Moreover, Sadat is allowing civilians to return to the cities along the Suez Canal that were turned into ghost towns...
...rise in tension. The Israelis were too inflexible in their refusal to deal with Jordan over the West Bank in recent months, some U.S. officials believe, thereby weakening King Hussein and strengthening Arafat's position at the Rabat summit. But more important, in the U.S. view, Syrian President Assad, has been pursuing a "stalemate strategy" of seeking to prevent progress toward an Israeli settlement with Jordan and Egypt until Israel makes some concessions -like a partial withdrawal on the Golan Heights-to Syria as well...
Sweet, Fat Years. At Rabat, accordingly, Assad shrewdly maneuvered to promote Arafat at the expense of Hussein. The Syrian President knew that a public political victory for the P.L.O. would be not only an outright defeat for Hussein but a private diplomatic setback for Sadat., Assad's motive: believing as he does that Egypt and Jordan were the chief Arab beneficiaries of Kissinger's step-by-step approach to a settlement, he wanted to force a return to Geneva, where he felt Syria would have a better chance of extracting concessions from Israel. "This is the best card...