Word: hafez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kissinger is anxious to work out another agreement, at least between Israel and Egypt, before the U.N. peacekeeping mandates come up for renegotiation in the spring. If he is successful, Syria's President Hafez Assad might even agree to delay a resumption of the full-scale Geneva conference long enough for Kissinger to work out second-stage agreements on the Golan Heights. Sadat desperately wants Kissinger to succeed. If he can work out a Sinai deal, it will justify Sadat's argument that a moderate approach can recover territory...
...Jordan and Saudi Arabia, there were worries that this might be the last chance for his step-by-step approach. Foreshadowing Kissinger's visit, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko concluded a Middle East tour of his own to press the Russian preference-a return to Geneva. Syrian President Hafez Assad, the most unbending leader of the Arab confrontation powers, supports that preference. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat still has hopes that Kissinger can achieve further progress; nonetheless, the joint Egyptian-Soviet communiqué issued after Gromyko's visit reflected Sadat's desire for eventual resumption of the Geneva...
Syria's President Hafez Assad and Lebanon's President Suleiman Franjieh met briefly in the Lebanese town of Chtoura, a honeymoon resort that is the local equivalent of Niagara Falls. The setting was significant: though their discussions concerned the situation with Israel, the meeting was the first formal summit between leaders of the two often contentious neighbors since 1947. Franjieh reportedly refused to allow Syrian troops inside his country short of an all-out Israeli assault, and agreed only to "military coordination" with Damascus. Even Israeli diplomats decided that the meeting had temporarily lessened tension along the northern...
...Middle East influence they lost last year when Sadat turned to the West for support and Kissinger scored his disengagement successes. Moreover, Sadat knows he must not move too quickly lest he seem to be abandoning Syria, his principal ally in the October war. For his part, Syrian President Hafez Assad, whose forces have already been resupplied by the Soviets, believes he has a better chance of getting a satisfactory peace settlement for his country through a Geneva conference than through bilateral negotiations with Israel...
Emerging from a meeting last week with Syrian President Hafez Assad, U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim smilingly announced a notable bit of peace keeping. Assad had agreed to a six-month extension for the U.N.'s 1,250-man Disengagement Observer Force stationed on the Golan Heights...