Word: golan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swift triumph in the Six-Day War. Despite the important advantages possessed this time by the refurbished Arab armies-the element of surprise, the early losses they inflicted, their easy penetration of the Bar-Lev Line along the east bank of the Suez Canal and Israeli bastions in the Golan Heights-the Israelis managed in scarcely more than two weeks to reverse the tide of battle and push the battlefronts into Syria and Egypt. At week's end the Israelis claimed that they had captured most of the city of Suez; their armies had fought to within 30 miles...
...what many Palestinians felt was unseemly haste, at the cease-fire proposals. Observes a Western Arabist in Jerusalem: "It seems as if the guerrillas have been almost completely bypassed. The Egyptians seem almost completely preoccupied with recovering lost territory in Sinai, and the Syrians in getting back to the Golan Heights. Nobody is paying more than lip service to the Palestinian cause...
...GOLAN HEIGHTS. The barren Golan Heights are useful only as a strategic barrier. Israel might retain a part of this disputed rocky terrain. A U.N. peace-keeping force, with similar guarantees against withdrawal, could keep the armies apart-and protect Israeli settlements from the Syrian guns that periodically fired on them before...
...routine in Viet Nam. The cost in blood has already been high. Three Israeli newsmen have been killed, including Radio Israel's Senior Producer Rafi Unger, 26. Nicholas Tomalin, 42, a respected English war correspondent (London Sunday Times), died when a Syrian rocket demolished his car near the Golan Heights...
Israel has provided 80 escort officers, including the movie star Haim Topol, to act as translators and tour guides to combat zones approved by Israeli security. As an added fillip, the military press liaison runs daily tourist buses from Tel Aviv to the Golan Heights, but this service is unpopular with many reporters. "I wouldn't get into one of those coffins with masses of correspondents," says New York Times Correspondent Terence Smith. Indeed, on one trip, bus drivers ventured too close to the battle line and came under Syrian air and artillery attack. Only poor marksmanship averted...