Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Golan. Kissinger had also talked with Syria's General Hikmat Chahabi, whose outline understandably called for a greater Israeli withdrawal. But Kissinger obviously thought there was enough agreement between the two that aides talked about a Kissinger shuttle on the 45-minute flight between Tel Aviv and Damascus similar to the round of flights between Jerusalem and Aswan in January...
...Israel that they could fight as long as Israeli troops occupied the strategic mountain. Syria's message was clear: It would fight until Israel came up with a significant pullback. Syrian Vice Foreign Minister Abdel Ghani Rafii told TIME Correspondent William Stewart in a calm and strangely relaxed Damascus last week: "If we have assur ances about withdrawal and the restoration of Palestinian rights, we can dis cuss the rest at Geneva. Disengagement is the interim step...
...latest crisis came at a particularly bad time for Israel's government. Sporadic fighting continued for the fourth week on the Golan Heights, and for the first time since the October War Israeli warplanes opened fire on Syrian troops. In Damascus, Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas said that his country "is now prepared to launch an all-out war against Israel to ensure the liberation of all occupied territories...
...battalion commander. "We never know when they will begin, and we don't know when they will stop. There is no logic to it." In fact, the logic was to get the Israelis to negotiate seriously. The firing may also have been designed to reassure hawks back in Damascus that President Hafez Assad is truly determined to recover all Syrian land captured by Israel in two wars...
...Damascus last week, Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan had a two-hour interview with Syrian President Hafez Assad. It was the first that Assad had ever given to an American journalist. Donovan's report...