Word: golan
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About the only other thing that the Middle East needed in the way of peripatetics was another series of shuttle-diplomacy flights by Kissinger, similar to those that paved the way for disengagements last year in Sinai and on the Golan Heights. Despite Arab anger at the Secretary's much-publicized statement that the U.S. would not absolutely rule out the use of military force against the oil producers (see following story), such a visit, perhaps early in February, seems increasingly plausible...
With the Brezhnev visit now delayed indefinitely, there is a new opportunity for Kissinger to push ahead with talks leading to a further pullback of Israeli troops on the Sinai and Golan fronts. Cairo's mood last week reflected a faint new hope that he might succeed...
...PALESTINE SETTLEMENT: "Arab countries are willing to accept a peaceful settlement based on justice and equity. The Arab confrontation countries have repeatedly expressed their approval of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which specifies Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Arab territories-that is, from the Golan Heights and the West Bank, including Jerusalem...
...Israel to relinquish territory occupied in 1967 and grant some of the Palestinian demands. The most critical time will be late spring, when the weather is right for military operations, and the mandates expire for the U.N. buffer forces now stationed in the Sinai and on the Golan Heights. Short of war, both the Israelis and the Palestine Liberation Organization are expected to continue their cross-border terrorist and commando raids...
Died. Ahmad Ismail Ali, 57, Egyptian Minister of War and military commander who planned the 1973 Arab assaults at Suez and on the Golan Heights; of cancer; in London. A World War II veteran who saw action with the British Eighth Army against Rommel's Afrika Korps, Ismail fought in the 1948, 1956 and 1967 wars against Israel. As Arab commander in chief, he put in 20-hour days during 1973, planning the autumn strike. When the Syrian and Egyptian assaults came on the afternoon of Yom Kippur, Ismail's use of water cannon to erode the sand...