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Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Syria's President Hafez Assad met in Cairo early in the week to discuss joint strategy for Geneva. Egypt had already affirmed that it would attend the conference, but with "vigilance and with continued mobilization." Egypt was not prepared, warned Deputy Premier Mohamed Abdel Kader Hatem, to live once again with a no-peace-no-war stalemate. It would insist on Israeli withdrawal and on recognition of "the rights of the Palestinians." The Syrians have threatened to boycott the conference unless the Israelis withdraw from the Arab territory they have occupied since...
...Sadat and Syria's President Hafez Assad won an open mandate for moving ahead with plans for Arab representation at a peace conference in Geneva later this month, which will be sponsored by the U.S. and the Soviets. More than that, colleagues who had come to the conference talking about continuing the war with Israel voted instead to continue wartime subsidies to Egypt while Sadat searches for peace...
Ominous Intelligence. The stunning swiftness of the cease-fire deal caught other Middle Eastern nations by surprise. Syrian President Hafez Assad, who had not been consulted when Sadat decided to accept the U.S.-U.S.S.R. ceasefire, was upset by his erstwhile ally's acceptance of last week's terms. Assad was particularly angry because only a few days before, the Egyptians had threatened to resume the fighting in order to relieve the Third Army and force the Israelis from the west bank of the canal. There were ominous intelligence reports that the Soviets were resupplying the Egyptian Second Army...
Syria's Assad, whose own forces were still facing Israeli armor ensconced along the Golan Heights, was left to work out his own arrangements. The Israelis anxiously sought some kind of stand-down that would allow them to recover an estimated 120 soldiers and pilots held by Syria. By week's end, however, no prisoner agreement had been reached with Damascus...
...Arabs, other leaders besides Syria's Assad were obviously uncertain about the Kissinger agreement and its implications for them. Among those who flew from capital to capital last week in a frenzied series of conferences and consultations that left jet contrails all across the Mediterranean sky was Jordan's King Hussein, who made swift visits to Syria, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Kuwait. Algerian President Houari Boumedienne dropped into Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, Kuwait and Riyadh in an effort to arrange an Arab summit. Libya's Muammar Gaddafi warned of a return to war and urged the defeat...