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...Hollywood it was being kicked around as "Bo's boo-boo." And for a while it did appear that Bolero, the latest eyebrow-raiser starring the original 10, Bo Derek, 27, and directed by Husband John Derek, 58, might never be released. The reason: Israeli Executive Producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, who sank $7 million into the film, and MGM/UA, the studio set to distribute it, found the story of Bo's fling with a seemingly impotent Spanish bullfighter overstacked with single entendres. The Dereks were asked to cut some of the steamier scenes in order...
...week. Israeli officials contended that the island was being used by the P.L.O. as a training base for sea assaults. The next day brought cause for celebration, however. Israel and Syria exchanged prisoners of war for the first time in a decade. In a tear-soaked ceremony in the Golan Heights town of Quneitra, Israel released 291 soldiers captured during the invasion of Lebanon, along with 20 Arabs who had been arrested for protesting the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights. Syria gave up three Israeli soldiers caught during the invasion and three security agents seized in May after they...
Others contend that such an analysis is far too rosy. "Syria will never leave Lebanon unless it is forced to evacuate," says an Israeli general. Even if Syria is guaranteed influence in Lebanese affairs, according to British diplomats, Damascus will still insist on the return of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights as the price for its withdrawal from Lebanon. Sooner or later, in the view of many Middle East experts in the U.S. and Western Europe, Syria must be brought into negotiations for a Palestinian homeland. As one senior British diplomat puts it: "Like it or not, Syria...
After leading a bloodless coup in 1970, Hafez Assad took over and appeared to be a relative moderate. He signed a disengagement agreement with Israel over the Golan Heights in 1974. He sent his army into Lebanon in 1976 to save the Maronite Christians from defeat by the Palestine Liberation Organization and a coalition of leftist Muslim forces. He told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn in 1977 that he was ready to make peace with the Israelis if they would withdraw from the territory they had captured in the 1967 war. But in the past three years, as he has fought...
...weeks ago, Syria raised its number of soldiers in Lebanon from 58,500 to 62,000. Two mechanized divisions were moved to the Syrian front on the Golan Heights, and some 30 commando and paratrooper battalions were transferred from Lebanese soil to Syrian airfields. The Israelis became even more alarmed when they learned that the estimated 500 Soviets stationed at the site of an SA-5 missile battery were heading home. One interpretation holds that the Soviets simply had finished training the Syrians to operate the batteries. The worst-case scenario: the Syrians were preparing...