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...late afternoon, we were back at Damascus' airport. Weary from yet another conference with Syrian President Assad, Henry Kissinger told the crowding local press that there had been progress but no agreement. Then he flew off to Jerusalem to try once again to reason the two sides into not shooting at each other...
Bountiful Supply. The Syrians were being encouraged in the fighting by Moscow, which insists on participating in any new peace discussions. Syria's President Hafez Assad had returned from a visit to Moscow in an optimistic mood; the Russians apparently promised him a bountiful supply of arms. TIME Correspondent William Stewart reported from Syria that Soviet ships were already unloading at Latakia, and tank carriers were hauling new T-62s south toward the front through peaceful fields of ripening wheat. Israeli military leaders believe that their U.S. weapons are superior to Soviet equipment, but if America decides...
...from 9,232-ft. Mount Hermon and beyond the Syrian plain below, where fruit trees were blossoming in contrast to the snow above, the fighting on the mountain was already having a profound political effect. Syria's President Hafez Assad, in Moscow last week on a six-day visit, got the kind of reception reserved for much more impor tant chiefs of government. At a Krem lin dinner for Assad, Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev promised the Syrian President unlimited amounts of Soviet planes, missiles and other armament to replace Syrian losses to Israel in the October...
...Russian support of Assad had a double edge. One was an ostentatious display of diplomatic and material support of Syria until peace talks take place in Geneva-with Moscow as an equal partner to discussions rather than un der Henry Kissinger's one-man diplomacy. The other was that the Soviets, by playing up to Syria, were trying to balance their declining influence with Egypt as their chief Arab ally...
...prepared for an agreement on disengagement with Syria. But we are not prepared to throw in any bonus for Assad's attack on us in October. We are not prepared to give him something beyond the 1967 border. We should be talking now only about the results of the October war. He has villages in the territory we captured, and he should be concerned about them. But he wants us to get off the Golan Heights entirely. There is no one who can honestly say to us, after seeing the situation on the Heights and listening to Assad, that...