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...Meir (TIME, Dec. 14), favored a quick return to the Jarring talks. Another, ted by Mrs. Meir and her principal Cabinet adviser, Israel Galili, was skeptical of this approach and held out-fruitlessly-for removal of Egyptian missiles from Suez in return for Israel's reappearance. Defense Minister Dayan wavered between the two sides...
Despite that tough position, a U.S. diplomat in the region noted: "The reports we got are that within the Israeli government there is a slight majority in favor of taking the risk of exchanging territory for guarantees." Dayan now appears to be one of them. "We have demanded total peace, and this the Arabs were not ready to grant us," the Defense Minister has said. "The Arabs have demanded total withdrawal, and this we are not willing to accept. So let us have an arrangement that would give us something less than total peace and something less than total withdrawal...
...kibbutzim in the northern Galilee valley below. Now the heights are largely deserted. Kuneitra, which once had a population of 20,000. has only 300 today, most of them members of an Israeli kibbutz that operates a coffee shop selling apple strudel, beverages, and busts of Golda Meir. Moshe Dayan and David Ben-Gurion. Smaller Syrian villages are being bulldozed. "They had become a health hazard," explains an Israeli officer. "They provided refuge for stray dogs, cats and fedayeen." Some Golan fields still carry red-triangle signs denoting Syrian minefields. Others are lush with wheat and cotton grown by Israeli...
...Dayan, making the same rounds, was unexpectedly subdued. He stressed that Israel is prepared to re-enter the Jarring talks before the cease-fire expires in February. The talks will be based on a 1967 Security Council resolution that calls for both a return of territory captured in the Six-Day War as well as the establishment of secure borders. What Dayan wanted was U.S. reassurance that it would veto any Russian attempt to introduce a new resolution stressing only territories. Washington was noncommittal, but did indicate that it is ready to fill an Israeli shopping list that runs...
...emphasize its independence, Washington last week served as a scrupulously impartial host to distinguished visitors from both sides. In visits that barely missed overlapping, Jordan's King Hussein and Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan called at the White House and met Secretary of State William Rogers and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird. Both visitors stressed their willingness to join the peace talks to be held under the aegis of United Nations Mediator Gunnar Jarring. Each, however, arrived with a shopping list of military items, should the talks fail to get off the ground...