Word: golan
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Amid such bloodshed and bitterness, there have been a few hopeful signs. Last week both Israel and Syria agreed to extend for another six months the mandate of the United Nations peace-keeping forces on the Golan Heights. The agreement by Jerusalem and Damascus was as much to avoid the consequences of no mandate-the prospect of renewed fighting-as it was a vote of approval for the U.N. troops...
...bombs, TIME has also learned, were hastily assembled at a secret underground tunnel during a 78-hr, period at the start of the 1973 October War. At that time, the Egyptians had repulsed the first Israeli counterattacks along the Suez Canal, causing heavy casualties, and Israeli forces on the Golan Heights were retreating in the face of a massive Syrian tank assault. At 10 p.m. on Oct. 8, the Israeli Commander on the northern front. Major General Yitzhak Hoffi, told his superior: "I am not sure that we can hold out much longer." After midnight. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan solemnly...
...from which will appear this week in the quarterly magazine Foreign Policy; Sheehan is a freelance writer and former State Department press officer who conducts Middle East seminars at Harvard's Center for International Affairs. The other is The Secret Conversations of Henry Kissinger by Israeli Journalist Matti Golan, which will be published in the U.S. next week; Golan's book was banned by Israeli military censors for revealing military secrets, but the ban was inexplicably lifted. A sampler from their reports...
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...Matter of Protocol: "Kissinger [during negotiations on withdrawal in the Golan Heights] told [Israeli Defense Minister Moshe] Dayan to make the map and threw it across the table at him. He kept shouting, 'Write on the map whatever you want. I no longer care!' There was complete silence. Dayan did not touch the map lying in the middle of the table; he only looked straight ahead with his one penetrating eye. Just then an American security man entered the room with Kissinger's glasses, which he had left behind at the hotel. He marched directly to Kissinger...