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...Henry Kissinger and a return to the full-scale Geneva Conference. Ar abs favor the conference because they could speak as a bloc and they would also be supported by a Russian voice as forceful as that of Washington. Damascus predicted resumption of Geneva talks in early January. In Cairo, they were expected to resume soon after So viet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev makes his first trip to Egypt...
Kissinger's present plan is to resume discussions between Israel and Egypt, especially since Cairo, with its economic problems, now seems more amenable to peace talks than Damascus. Toward that end, Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon will visit Washington next week. One difficulty is that Israel so far appears unwilling to agree to a key Egyptian point in these talks: the return of the Abu Rudeis oilfields, which were captured by Israeli forces in the Six-Day War and have been pumping out oil for Israel ever since...
...another grisly drama of terrorism was played out at the international airport in Tunis. Bargaining with the lives of 47 persons aboard a hijacked British airliner, three Palestinian guerrillas demanded the release of 13 fellow terrorists-veterans of the 1973 Khartoum and Rome massacres-who were being held in Cairo. After one passenger had been assassinated, Egypt flew five of the Palestinian prisoners from Cairo to Tunis. The Netherlands also met a subsequent demand to release two prisoners. Late last Sunday the hostages were released unharmed...
...belief that they were cheated out of military victory last year by big-power intervention, and can expect similar treatment next time. "The Russians would never allow us to score a really decisive victory," says Ronnie Medzini, an aide to Rabin. "We will never be able to march into Cairo and Damascus and dictate political terms-the classical way wars are ended." Perhaps, suggests Military Strategist Yehoshofat Harkabi, "as in most great conflicts in history, there is no solution for the Middle East conflict; it will not be solved but will just peter out as history passes...
EGYPT, like Syria, was hastily resupplied by Moscow last year. All of the 650 tanks lost in the Sinai desert-more than a third of Cairo's 1,880-tank force -were replaced, along with all the destroyed or captured SA-6 and SA-7 antiaircraft missiles that proved to be so devastating to the Israeli air force. Egypt, however, is short of spare parts, and it is probably still missing about a dozen of the 150 MIGS that the Israelis shot down. In a move to redress the balance, the Egyptians are getting 36 Mirage V fighter-bombers...