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Black spirals of smoke dirtied the blue sky over the Suez Canal last week, and the thud of explosives shattered the desert stillness. They were the tocsins of peace, not war The smoke was from stores being burned by the 40,000-man Israeli force before it withdrew tanks and guns from a bridgehead west of the canal captured last October. The explosions were from the captured or unused ammunition and mines that were being destroyed...
...this activity signaled the beginning of Israeli disengagement from Egyptian territory west of the Suez Canal under the terms of the agreement worked out by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. It also marked the first time in almost 20 years that Israeli forces have voluntarily pulled back from captured Arab territory...
...recently refused to see Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco when Kissinger proposed sending him to give a briefing on the Egyptian-Israeli talks. But Kissinger, for the next month at least, is booked for Western Hemisphere consultations, including discussions with Panama on the status of the Panama Canal, a meeting with Western Hemisphere foreign ministers in Mexico City to discuss mutual problems and talks on oil in Ottawa with Canadian officials. It will be difficult for the Secretary to return to Middle East matters until early March, by which time the thing that Kissinger fears most, a loss...
...Israeli troops began to withdraw from the western bank of the Suez Canal last week, TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin made a final tour of the area just before Israeli officials banned newsmen from watching the disengagements. His report...
...settlement pledged the belligerents to a "scrupulous" observance of disengagement, defined the broad perimeters of troop reduction and its timing, and emphasized that disengagement around the Suez Canal was only the first step toward a "final, just and durable peace." According to reports in Jerusalem, it allows the Egyptians to keep a token force of eight battalions, or 7,000 men and only 30 tanks, in the desert...