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...PALESTINE SETTLEMENT: "Arab countries are willing to accept a peaceful settlement based on justice and equity. The Arab confrontation countries have repeatedly expressed their approval of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which specifies Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Arab territories-that is, from the Golan Heights and the West Bank, including Jerusalem...
...Israel to relinquish territory occupied in 1967 and grant some of the Palestinian demands. The most critical time will be late spring, when the weather is right for military operations, and the mandates expire for the U.N. buffer forces now stationed in the Sinai and on the Golan Heights. Short of war, both the Israelis and the Palestine Liberation Organization are expected to continue their cross-border terrorist and commando raids...
Died. Ahmad Ismail Ali, 57, Egyptian Minister of War and military commander who planned the 1973 Arab assaults at Suez and on the Golan Heights; of cancer; in London. A World War II veteran who saw action with the British Eighth Army against Rommel's Afrika Korps, Ismail fought in the 1948, 1956 and 1967 wars against Israel. As Arab commander in chief, he put in 20-hour days during 1973, planning the autumn strike. When the Syrian and Egyptian assaults came on the afternoon of Yom Kippur, Ismail's use of water cannon to erode the sand...
...might lead to meaningful negotiations. Foreign Minister Yigal Allon left the impression in a recent trip to Washington that on the eve of the Sadat-Brezhnev meeting in Cairo, the Israelis see little point in making a firm commitment for a further withdrawal either in Sinai or on the Golan...
...most distinguished retired generals-Israel Tal, its top armor strategist, and Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, the brilliant, sharp-tongued tactician who led his division across the Suez Canal in October 1973-have returned to semiactive status. Sharon reportedly has been given a command in the "northern sector," meaning the Golan Heights, where he presumably would direct any battles against the Syrians, who according to Israeli sources have violated the disengagement agreement by placing more tanks and heavy-artillery batteries in the limited-forces zone than the agreement permits...