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While negotiating in Jerusalem, Aswan and Damascus, Kissinger had kept a worried eye on the rapidly deteriorating situation in Viet Nam. Bitterly, he blamed Congress for failing to continue a high level of military aid to the Saigon government. If he had had any inkling at all that U.S. aid would be cut back, he insisted, "I could not in good conscience have negotiated" the Paris Accords of 1973. "If we had put forward a reasonable effort and then they collapsed," he said of the South Vietnamese forces, "that's one situation. But if their collapse is traceable...
...spite of such difficulties, Kissinger remained optimistic about the outcome of his tenth round of personalized Middle East negotiations. "My view is that we are making progress slowly," he told U.S. newsmen as he flew from Aswan to Jerusalem at week's end. He appeared perceptibly relaxed as his Air Force jet settled into a cross-weave routine of flights between Aswan, Tel Aviv and Damascus (see box following page). At midweek he was confident enough about the pace of discussions to undertake a side trip to Ankara, where he discussed the Cyprus situation with Turkish leaders. They displayed...
Henry Kissinger took time last week to inspect the temples at Philae near Aswan, where he had been conferring with President Anwar Sadat. "I really love ancient Egyptians," said Kissinger, as a guide droned on about Isis, the goddess of fertility to whom the largest Philae temple is dedicated...
Even at moments of seeming relaxation, Kissinger manages to maintain an aura of mystery and tension. Last week the Secretary, dressed in blue shorts and a white terry-cloth beach jacket, was sunning himself beside the pool of the New Cataract Hotel in Aswan when an aide rushed up with a secret message. Kissinger walked away from attentive newsmen to read the missive. "Can we do that?" he asked. "Yes," replied the aide. Kissinger returned to talk with the reporters, but did not tell them until they boarded the plane that they were to make an unscheduled flight to Ankara...
...most familiar legs of the tour-Damascus and Aswan-arrivals and departures have by now become routine. In Jerusalem, on the other hand, Kissinger delights in the flock of excited American tourists who gather in the King David Hotel lobby to applaud and snap his picture. He has become such an attraction there that before the latest shuttle, the hotel's management wrote a pleading letter asking him not to carry out "an act of aggression against the King David" by switching to the newer Jerusalem Hilton. With enough aggression to deal with already, Kissinger acceded...