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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...
...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...
...principal problem facing Kissinger is that the Golan Heights, the geopolitical area he has to work with this time, is smaller and more difficult to sort out than the Sinai desert of Egypt. No armies are trapped there to add urgency to negotiations; rather, there are civilian settlers on both sides, which makes discussions more complicated. Both nations, moreover, have made seemingly irreconcilable demands. Syria insists that Israel, as a first step, return all of the 154-sq.-mi. "bulge" that it captured in the October war along with portions of Syrian territory captured in 1967, including Quneitra, the principal...
Overriding Concern. Israel is prepared to give up only the bulge as an initial step. "Quneitra is possible," says an Israeli negotiator, "but not in the first stage. First we want to establish Syrian intentions." Israel's overriding concern, of course, is that the Golan Heights overlook vast reaches of northern Israeli territory. In the past, Syrian gunners have periodically raked Israeli kibbutzim with artillery stationed on the strategic heights. For that reason, Israel has established new settlements on the Golan -one more was dedicated last week-as a symbol of its determination to continue to occupy the territory...