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...hardliners, such as Iraq and Libya, insist that only armed struggle can persuade Israel to yield. Syria's President Hafez Assad was willing to negotiate a settlement but insisted that it be a once-and-for-all deal worked out in a Geneva conference. Then there were the moderates, headed by Egypt's President Anwar Sadat who supports U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's gradualist approach-"a little more territory for a little more peace...
Snarled Traffic. Rumblings of the Cyprus crisis echoed all around the Mediterranean. Syria placed its forces on maximum alert, and President Hafez Assad canceled a state visit to Yugoslavia. The Egyptian government ordered its navy to stay at home...
...refugees cheered up, however, when President Hafez Assad arrived dressed in military uniform. Surrounded by excited crowds who tossed flowers, cheered and chanted, "Welcome Assad, the liberator!", the President kissed the Syrian flag and raised it to the top of a makeshift flagpole...
...Russian official-but they are keeping their temper in check. Says an Israeli analyst: "Everything would change if Brezhnev were to fall and anti-détente forces took over in Moscow. The Russians would then immediately try to get rid of Sadat and possibly [Syrian President Hafez] Assad...
Nixon and Assad were planning to discuss the possible resumption of diplomatic relations as well as the $100 million in the pending foreign aid bill that the Administration has said could go to Syria. But there was no getting away from the tougher subjects that were blocking a general settlement in the Middle East, and Assad gave Nixon the hard line. "No peace can be established in this region," he declared, "unless a real and just solution is found for the Palestinian question." In reply, Nixon said again that he had set out on his tour with no quick solutions...