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...negotiation, no solution except a radical accommodation that neither the Arabs nor the Israelis have yet found acceptable. The first step could be a very simple one: a withdrawal by the Israelis of only four or five kilometers on the Golan Heights, to permit a widening of the U.N. buffer zone. Such a modest gesture, high U.S. officials believe, could be the Confucian first step that could lead to the necessary 10,000 miles of negotiation. For Yitzhak Rabin, the challenge will be to compromise, to conciliate, perhaps even to try to deal with his people's ultimate enemies...
...notion that developed agricultural nations with excess production potential can buffer the hungry and increasingly populous nations through donations of food grains on an ever increasing scale has finite limitations. Already there is some evidence that the people of developed nations cannot indefinitely accept the progressively higher taxes and reduced living standards implicit in continuing large-scale and growing foreign...
...Soviet U.N. Delegate Yakov Malik at one point last week brusquely vetoed a U.N. Security Council draft resolution on the crisis. The motion called for beefing up the Cyprus peace-keeping force to 5,000 men and allowing U.N. troops to begin mapping cease-fire lines and laying out buffer zones between Greeks and Turks. Malik hinted that the Soviets are increasingly unhappy with the exclusive Western involvement in solving the Cyprus crisis. After making his point, Malik let the motion pass the next...
...Buffer Zone. Quneitra's importance for the moment is primarily symbolic. The new buffer zone that runs through the territory from north to south has deprived the town of its old strategic position as a major crossroads and access point to both northern Israel and the Damascus plain. Economically, the city will be a burden on the Syrian government for some time to come, although in the long run the agricultural potential of a fertile, well-watered area-good land for growing fruit, wheat, barley and beans-should contribute significantly to Syria's economy...
...that same ominous thought, Kissinger flew back to Israel. He had managed to obtain at least an oral promise from Assad that the fedayeen would be policed. He convinced Israeli negotiators that they should eliminate their demand for a clause specifically forbidding paramilitary forces to operate across the buffer zones. Instead, he substituted a secret protocol to the effect that Washington will not oppose Israeli retaliation in the event of future raids. The Israelis accepted this. Armed with their affirmative response, he once more sped back down the Judean hills to Ben Gurion Airport and made the 126-mile flight...