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...morning, Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin was at army headquarters in Tel Aviv. Defense Minister Shimon Peres and Chief of Staff Mordecai Gur arrived soon after at Ge'ula Street to take command. Meanwhile, the Arab commandos chose Kochava Levi, who had picked up Arabic in the streets, to translate to Israeli officials their demand for a plane to take the hostages and ten Palestinians held in Israeli prisons to Damascus or Paris. Bandaging the wounded with ripped sheets and shouting the guerrillas' terms down from a fourth-floor window, Kochava emerged as the unexpected heroine of the drama...
...humor into the discussions. Staring at a map of Sinai on a Jerusalem conference-room wall, Kissinger asked jokingly, "What did you put that map up for? I don't intend to talk about Sinai." At a dinner with Israeli officials he described Chief of Staff Mordechai Gur as a general "who displays great affection for any piece of territory possessing any elevation whatsoever." Referring to three promontories on the Golan Heights that Israel insisted on controlling in the first stage of disengagement talks with Syria, Kissinger told Gur: "I'll get one of those hills yet." Retorted...
Died. André Géraud, 92, Cassandra-like French columnist known as Pertinax (Latin for resolute); in Ségur-le-Château, France. In his daily columns in Echo de Paris, Pertinax in the 1930s warned about the danger of appeasing Hitler. When Nazi panzers crushed France in 1940, he escaped via Bordeaux on an English destroyer. In the U.S. during the war, he wrote his best-known work, The Gravediggers of France, a historical exposé of the men responsible for his country's fall...
...West Bank. This leads me to believe that the Israelis are only asking [Premier Yitzhak] Rabin for time to prepare-asking for six months-by whichtime they will be politically and militarily in a position to demolish the effects of the October war. Their chief of staff, Mordechai Gur, declared that in the next war the element of surprise will be on the side of Israel. They have made it clear they intend to make a pre-emptive strike against the Syrians and Palestinians to begin the fifth Arab-Israeli war. It is the duty of the United Nations...
...retaliatory attacks following Nahariya, there was strong Arab reaction. Military leaders scheduled a meeting in Cairo this week to plan joint aid for Lebanon. Egypt and Syria threatened to send planes if Israel continued to hit the Palestinian camps, and Syria reportedly dispatched ground-to-air missiles. General Mordechai Gur, Israel's Chief of Staff, warned that "if Lebanon gets serious military aid, the country will become a battlefield," and threatened a pre-emptive attack. Even as the second round of Kissinger's disengagement was calmly ending on the Golan Heights (see fallowing story), the Middle East...