Word: golan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Golan Heights: No Place to Hide...
...consecutive week since the cease-fire was broken. Artillery duels flared, armored forces clashed, and both sides claimed to have inflicted casualties. Last week military officers from Israel and Syria escorted 14 American journalists (who had been traveling with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger) on separate trips to the Golan Heights. Among them was TIME Correspondent John Mulliken, who sent this report...
...Monday the Israelis took us to Quneitra, capital of the Golan. Before Israel captured it in the 1967 war, it was a town of 20,000 Syrians. Today Quneitra sits smashed to bits, lifeless, under the blazing Middle East sun. It is this desolate ruin that the Syrians so desperately want to recover and rebuild...
...hundred meters away, behind the crest of Bental, another of the hills, is Merom Golan, one of the 17 Israeli settlements in the Golan. Begun a month after the end of the Six-Day War, Merom Golan now has a population of 300, including 100 children. We passed homes under construction. Each house, finished or not, had its red-and-black-striped bomb shelter. When the war erupted last October, the settlement was evacuated. After four days the men returned to work the land. This year they will harvest the first fruits of the apple and plum trees...
...also back to Egypt to give Sadat progress reports. Kissinger seemed to be making progress, but slowly. He met in Cyprus with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who indicated that Moscow would not oppose his peacemaking endeavors. The Israelis agreed to give up more captured territory on the Golan Heights, and the Syrians dropped rigid demands for a specific timetable for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territory. At week's end the likelihood of a disengagement deal was still uncertain, but Sadat worked on as though the final outcome was inevitable...