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Directed by Menahem Golan...
...Soviet Union were to release a significant number of Jews and renew diplomatic relations with Israel, it could perhaps have a larger role in Middle East peace negotiations. If the Soviets delivered the Syrians to the conference table, Peres allegedly implied, the Israelis might return part of the Golan Heights to Syria...
Blue-bereted U.N. peacekeeping forces do serve as a buffer between potential combatants in a few global hot spots. Multinational U.N. forces patrol the Golan Heights and southern Lebanon, as well as the no-man's-land between Greek and Turkish Cyprus. But U.N. peacekeepers have failed to cushion nations from attack on several occasions, most infamously when the U.N. pulled its troops out of the Sinai Peninsula at the insistence of Gamal Abdel Nasser just before the outbreak of the Six-Day War between Egypt and Israel in 1967. Scoffed former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban...
Looking ahead to future productions, Golan announced the signing, on a Carlton Hotel napkin, of aging Enfant Terrible Jean-Luc Godard to direct a modern version of King Lear in Hollywood, perhaps with Marlon Brando as Lear and Woody Allen as the fool. (No, Golan admitted, the two stars had not even been approached to appear in the film -- but then again, they hadn't said no.) In any case, Godard by now should be accustomed to negative responses. His new film, a handsome, typically perverse antidrama called Detective, was booed at ; its gala screening, and as he was about...
...remained aboard the Israeli planes, parked in a remote corner of the airport and surrounded by blue-bereted Swiss security commandos, until the Israelis were flown in. The laborious exchange dragged out over eleven hours. At about the same time, 151 Arab prisoners were released by Israel on the Golan Heights and handed over to Syrian and Lebanese authorities, while 605 others were bused from jails in Israel and the Israeli- occupied territories to their hometowns in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. There they were greeted by cheering crowds. The following morning the plane carrying the released Israelis...