Word: golan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could detect in the distance the salient from which, by coincidence, Israeli troops that day were beginning to pull back in accordance with the disengagement agreement that Kissinger had worked out. One of the larger groups that watched the motorcade pass by was composed of Syrian refugees from the Golan Heights. The tough-looking young soldiers that guarded the airport and roads were armed with Russian-made AK-47s. Nixon's limousine also swept by a Palestinian refugee camp composed of grim, concrete-block and tin-roofed buildings...
...Faisal, who is bitterly antiCommunist, has been a firm friend of the U.S. over the years, he was roused to action by U.S. support of Israel during the October war. He helped bankroll the Arab armies, sent a token force of soldiers to fight alongside the Syrians on the Golan Heights, and then called the signals for the oil embargo that sent a frisson through the economies of the U.S., Europe and Japan. It was only two weeks ago that the U.S., taking a long step toward reconciliation, agreed to work out programs of economic, technical and military...
Almost everywhere in the Middle East there was euphoria and rejoicing as the cease-fire held and negotiations on details proceeded. On the Golan Heights, United Nations troops from Canada, Poland, Austria and Peru moved in to begin keeping peace as Syrian and Israeli forces started pulling back from the cease-fire line. Syrians cheered as Israeli units prepared to pull out of Quneitra, only to discover the retreating troops were leveling the remaining buildings hi the bombed-out city to hamper reoccupation. The speedy pace of the withdrawal had been set in Geneva, where Syrian and Israeli officers completed...
...travail. Explained one high government official last week: "Here is a country that has been isolated from the rest of the world. On top of the political aggravations it faced was its psychological withdrawal into itself. Its physical relationship to Israel made the drawing of a line through the Golan Heights?on the other side of which were Israeli settlements?a tremendously difficult experience. Every step along the way was very tough. Time and time again the Syrians had to go through the process of resisting what was needed to get an agreement and then facing the consequences...
Even as guns fell silent on the Golan Heights, hostile political shelling within Israel threatened to cut short the life of its budding new government. Factional bitterness and personal acrimony over the choice of Premier-designate Yitzhak Rabin's new 19-member coalition Cabinet have clouded prospects for his long-term success. A thin majority of the 120-member Knesset (Parliament) will probably approve Rabin this week as the country's fifth and youngest (52) Premier.* Nonetheless, many observers believe that new elections, perhaps later this year, must come if Rabin is to secure the mandate he needs...