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...Between the milltary zones a buffer zone varying in width from 1.3 miles to 3.7 miles will be manned by 1,250 United Nations troops. They will be charged with maintaining the cease-fire and seeing that it is "scrupulously observed." Along with this U.N. Disengagement Observer Force, 30,000 or more Syrian refugees will be allowed to return to their land; Syrian civilian administrators will run the buffer zone...
Both Syria and Israel were eager to have an agreement, but the two countries could not get together on the size of the United Nations buffer force to be inserted between them. Israel wanted at least 2,500 blue-helmeted U.N. troops to keep peace. The Syrians at first insisted on no more than 300 observers, but later agreed to 1,000. Nor could the foes agree on the depth of "military zones" to be established on each side of the disengagement line. Jerusalem wanted relatively wide areas of 14.5 miles on either side of the U.N. buffer manned...
...been to bring together the Israelis and the Egyptians. Neither side had much to trade, especially since their armies were not stopped in exposed, vulnerable positions, as was the case in Egypt. The nature of the territory was also a factor: the vast Sinai desert is an obvious buffer zone, while the plain of Damascus and the Golan Heights are-or were before the fighting at least-populated regions with civilian settlements on both sides. Another difference: Egyptian and Israeli negotiators were willing to talk to each other, under U.N. auspices, at Kilometer 101; all the Syrian-Israeli negotiations...
...purple line," as the post-'67 war boundary is colored on Israeli maps. The Israelis were also willing to give up much of the bomb-blasted Golan town of Quneitra and allow a limited number of Syrian refugees to return there. Their conditions for disengagement included a United Nations buffer zone, a limited-arms zone on either side of the buffer and a system of U.N. arms inspections of the thinned-out opposing forces, which Kissinger must now work...
Only long-range multinational planning can cope with the problem. For example, there could be a United Nations-sponsored international birth control program, an expansion of fertilizer production, and the storing of adequate food reserves as a buffer against periodic poor harvests. Members of the United Nations hope to consider those proposals when they gather in Bucharest during August for a conference on population, and in Rome in November for a conference on food. Their task is formidable. Between now and the time they begin their deliberations, the world's population will have increased by 30 million...