Word: golan
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Syria's Assad, whose own forces were still facing Israeli armor ensconced along the Golan Heights, was left to work out his own arrangements. The Israelis anxiously sought some kind of stand-down that would allow them to recover an estimated 120 soldiers and pilots held by Syria. By week's end, however, no prisoner agreement had been reached with Damascus...
...Jeff Golan, number one on the Harvard team and formerly ranked number two in New England, managed only one win. However, Anders Carlsson and Shang Lai Kung provided the Crimson with victory edge by winning two of their three close matches...
Despite the 5-4 victory, the first division -- Golan, Carlsson, and Kung -- were all soundly defeated by Salem State's number one player, Mike Allen...
...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...