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...that map up for? I don't intend to talk about Sinai." At a dinner with Israeli officials he described Chief of Staff Mordechai Gur as a general "who displays great affection for any piece of territory possessing any elevation whatsoever." Referring to three promontories on the Golan Heights that Israel insisted on controlling in the first stage of disengagement talks with Syria, Kissinger told Gur: "I'll get one of those hills yet." Retorted a Gur aide: "You haven...
...Coalition. The Israeli attitude may yet frustrate the latest round of talks. Prior to Kissinger's visit, even some dovish politicians in Jerusalem were coming round to the hawk point of view that the country gave up too much for what it received during previous negotiations. On the Golan Heights, for instance, many Israelis feel that they should have held onto the provincial capital of Quneitra instead of returning it to the Syrians. Officially, Premier Rabin was authorized by his Cabinet to conclude only what Jerusalem called a thirty-fifty deal-a military pullback in the Sinai...
...Egypt, before the U.N. peacekeeping mandates come up for renegotiation in the spring. If he is successful, Syria's President Hafez Assad might even agree to delay a resumption of the full-scale Geneva conference long enough for Kissinger to work out second-stage agreements on the Golan Heights. Sadat desperately wants Kissinger to succeed. If he can work out a Sinai deal, it will justify Sadat's argument that a moderate approach can recover territory...
Geneva talks and also proposed a set time for discussions to begin-no later than early March, shortly before the United Nations' peace-keeping mandates in the Sinai and Golan Heights demilitarized zones expire. Gromyko obviously meant to use the Soviet-Syrian communiqué as a way to pressure Sadat, who so far has steadfastly resisted Soviet demands for talks in Geneva until he determines how much Kissinger's step-by-step strategy can accomplish...
...hawks. The theory is that a noted hard-liner would be better able than Rabin to convince the Israelis that they will have to give up not only large parts of the Sinai, which even opposition politicians are ready to surrender, but also the more sensitive areas of the Golan Heights and the West Bank in return for an Arab commitment to guarantee peace and secure borders for Israel...