Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israeli and Syrian troops are currently at battle strength and are so close on the Golan Heights that they face each other in a "no-warning" standoff. In the event of renewed fighting, the Syrians would probably seek to lure the Israelis into Syrian territory and inflict high casualties; Damascus, the Syrians are fond of saying, rightly or wrongly, would be like Stalingrad...
...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...
...fast enough that Kissinger was forced to revise the flight schedule. As his blue-and-white Air Force 707 lifted off from Rome for Cairo last week, newsmen traveling with Kissinger were told by State Department officials that his calls at the Egyptian capital, and at Riyadh, Amman, Damascus and Jerusalem, were "working visits" rather than "official visits"-the description of previous stops on his aerial caravan...
...Saiqa was established by Syria in 1967 and is still largely funded by Damascus. Led by Zuheir Mohsen, 45, Saiqa (Thunderbolt) consists of possibly 2,000 men, including about 1,000 full-time guerrillas. Most of them are Palestinian refugees who fled to Syria. More military than political, Al Saiqa is little more than an unofficial auxiliary of the Syrian army...
...aides sometimes do not know whether he is in Beirut?or in Damascus, Algiers or Cairo, seeking funds and support. He is particularly adept at the politics of consensus. Says a P.L.O. official: "He is one of the few people I can think of who can fly directly from Riyadh to Moscow and get along well in both places...