Word: golan
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...visit to the Middle East since October, the U.S. Secretary of State last week managed to 1) deliver to Israel a list of prisoners held by the Syrians since the end of the Yom Kippur War; 2) persuade the Israelis to offer Syria preliminary proposals for disengagement on the Golan Heights; 3) restore formal diplomatic relations between Egypt and the U.S., which were broken off in the 1967 Six Day War. Shuttle diplomacy, it seems, is still working...
...Israeli prisoners of war before negotiations begin-something Syria has adamantly refused to do until it gets an assurance that the Israelis will withdraw from Syrian land. But Egypt's Fahmy and Saudi Arabia's Saqqaf reportedly took to Washington an Arab proposal for disengagement along the Golan Heights. The terms of the proposal were not made public, but it was assumed that Syria had agreed to turn over the P.O.W. list...
Kissinger very much needs a diplomatic breakthrough on the Golan Heights disengagement; otherwise, his fragile design for a Middle East settlement may fall apart. The problem is not made significantly easier by Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's difficulties in putting together a viable government (see following story). "Let's face it," said an Israeli foreign ministry official last week, "we do not have very much to gain from a withdrawal on the Syrian front." While Jerusalem has, in fact, indicated some willingness to compromise on territory that Israel captured in October, it has vowed not to surrender...
Syrian President Hafez Assad last week reiterated his government's determination to recover all of its occupied territory. As reported by the Beirut daily Al Bayraq, he offered to repatriate the P.O.W.s "if Israel fulfills the Geneva Convention" and allows the repatriation of 170,000 refugees to the Golan Heights-meaning all of the Syrians who have had to leave their homes since the 1967 war. Assad further declared that Syria was committed to regaining the Heights "even if we fight 100 wars...
...leadership ability, devaluation in spirit, in values, in morale, in faith and self-confidence." Traditionally respected as the savior of the nation, even the army has come under attack for incompetence. Following a hue and cry about the lack of cold-weather gear for soldiers on the frosty Golan Heights, civilian volunteers and even tourists went up to the front to distribute American parkas, long underwear and woolen socks. The government is understandably apprehensive about the upcoming report of a blue-ribbon commission investigating the army's shortcomings...