Word: hikmat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stirred fears throughout the Arab world. Egypt's Anwar Sadat, Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba and Iraq's Ahmed Hassan Bakr telephoned Hassan and Algerian President Houari Boumedienne to urge a ceasefire. Syria's Hafez Assad dispatched Vice Premier Mohammed Haidar and Chief of Staff General Hikmat Chehabi to Algiers and Rabat to try to defuse what Damascus radio called "the explosive situation...
...passions that divide Lebanon's factions have shattered a score of cease-fires so far, how ever, and the air force's entry into the fighting further weakens the already slim possibility of a lasting truce. Syria's armed forces chief of staff, Major Gen eral Hikmat Shehabi, arrived in Beirut just before the strike at Damur to try to help resolve the crisis. His and other Arab efforts seemed to bear some small fruit: As this week began, Premier Karami announced yet another cease fire. But it was doubtful that the new truce would prove...
...success in establishing disengagement between Israel and Egypt. Building toward future peace talks in Geneva, Kissinger in Washington had already discussed the dimensions of disengagement with Dayan, who brought him Israel's concept of limited withdrawal from the Golan. Kissinger had also talked with Syria's General Hikmat Chahabi, whose outline understandably called for a greater Israeli withdrawal. But Kissinger obviously thought there was enough agreement between the two that aides talked about a Kissinger shuttle on the 45-minute flight between Tel Aviv and Damascus similar to the round of flights between Jerusalem and Aswan in January...