Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arab-Israeli disengagement talks shifted to a new front last week. Not surprisingly, there was an accompanying drop in optimism for quick agreement. On the Israeli-Egyptian side, where discussions had been successful, withdrawal was under way with few minor hitches. But there was no joy on Israel's other, snowy battle line with Syria. There artillery and tank gunners from both sides carried on a daily long-range duel along the El Quneitra-Damascus road. The Syrians said that four of their soldiers had been wounded in the exchanges. Israel reported one killed and three wounded. They were...
...Emergency Force. A little more than an hour later the last five Israeli half-tracks and Jeeps pulled out. The blue-helmeted U.N. force struck its olive-drab tent on the Cairo-Suez highway that had been the site for the first face-to-face meeting of Israeli and Egyptian officers in almost two decades. Finally, Egyptian troops reoccupied the road to Suez. TIME Correspondent Wil ton Wynn, who followed them, filed this report...
Peretz said yesterday that the disengagement agreement on the Egyptian front essentially paralleled Israeli proposals advanced in 1969 and 1970. The Egyptians were more flexible than the Israelis in the bargaining following the October ceasefire and Israel obtained more than it expected in the final agreement, Peretz quoted Israeli leaders as saying...
...THIRTEENTH DAY of the October Arab-Israeli war, as Egyptian tanks pushed into the Iraeli-occupied Sinai peninsula, a prominent Cairo opinion maker wrote: "The issue is not just the liberation of the Arab territories occupied since June 5, 1967, but strikes against the future of Israel more powerfully and in a more profound manner...If the Arabs are able to liberate their territories by force, why should they not in the next stage liberate Palestine itself by force...
...writer was Mohammed Hassanain Heykal, editor of the most influential Arab newspaper, Al Ahram, and as a confidant of Egyptian generals and presidents for 20 years, probably the most powerful civilian in Cairo...