Word: canalizes
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...praise and affection were certainly deserved, for Kissinger almost singlehanded had worked out an agreement to disengage Israeli and Egyptian forces along the Suez Canal. He had achieved what President Nixon called "the first significant step toward a permanent peace in the Middle East...
Under the terms of the settlement, Israel agreed to pull back forces that have been in the Sinai for seven years. At the same time, Egypt, whose army moved across the canal during the October war, agreed to thin out its forces...
...political complication on either side was the same: what diplomats refer to as linkage. Israel was prepared to pull back 20 miles from the Suez Canal to positions at Sinai's Mitla and Giddi passes. In return, Jerusalem expected Egypt to thin out its armor and artillery in Sinai, reopen the Suez Canal and, as a buffer, repopulate its ports of Ismailia, Suez and Port Said with civilians who fled the bitter cross-canal bombardments of the post-1967 war of attrition. Israel also insisted that Egypt issue a declaration forswearing further belligerency. For its part, Egypt wanted Israel...
...Geneva and Dayan in Washington sketched the same Israeli proposal for disengagement. Under it, Israeli forces now spread across Sinai and onto the west bank of the Suez Canal would withdraw in stages to positions around the defensible Mitla and Giddi passes. In return, the Israelis expected Egypt to withdraw its Second and Third armies from Sinai along with armor, artillery and missiles and replace them with only "symbolic police forces." Between the two would be interposed United Nations forces similar to those now attempting to maintain the cease-fire around Suez City on the west bank. Such an arrangement...
...talk last week with TIME Chief of Correspondents Murray J. Gart and Jerusalem Bureau Chief William Marmon, Sharon threatened: "If the Egyptians don't stop violating the ceasefire, the war will start again. And in that case we will force them back to the west side of the canal very quickly...