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...talks-which were dubbed "Kilometer 3152" by one Tel Aviv newspaper, based on its calculation of the distance between Switzerland and Israel -began last week. The man in charge was the tenacious, even-handed Finnish commander of the U.N. Emergency Force (UNEF) in the Middle East, Lieut. General Ensio Siilasvuo, who had also presided over the talks at Kilometer 101. Israel's chief representative was Major General Mordechai Gur, his country's military attaché in Washington, while the Egyptian side was led by Brigadier General Taha El Magdoub, Cairo's assistant chief of military operations...
...officers had met to discuss ways of carrying out the ceasefire, remained empty all week. On both the Suez and Syrian fronts, United Nations observers reported increasing numbers of cease-fire violations, including an air duel over the Gulf of Suez fought by Israeli and Egyptian jets. From Tel Aviv and Cairo came warnings that full-fledged hostilities could be resumed at any moment...
Last week Finland's Lieut. General Ensio Siilasvuo, commander of the U.N. Emergency Force, dashed between Cairo and Tel Aviv attempting to break the impasse in the Kilometer 101 talks. He succeeded only in gaining a promise from Israel to be a bit more flexible. This did not satisfy Egypt, whose President, Anwar Sadat, has been under strong pressure from Arab hawks to be tougher...
...Even then, Ben-Gurion's health had begun to fail. Too feeble to stay at the Sde Boker kibbutz in the red-roofed bungalow he had occupied alone since Wife Paula's death five years before, he returned two months ago to his other home in Tel Aviv. He was working there on the third volume of his collected letters when he suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage two weeks ago that left him paralyzed on his right side and unable to speak. He was rushed to Tel Hashomer hospital, where he died last weekend...
...immigration of Jews from Europe in the face of stern British measures to prevent it. Meanwhile, Jewish terrorists carried out a continuous assault on British personnel and bases. This desperate strategy succeeded, and "a Jewish state in the land of Israel" was proclaimed by Ben-Gurion at the Tel Aviv museum on May 14,1948, the same day on which the last British soldier left the territory...