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Henry Kissinger's reputation as the miracle worker of the Middle East underwent perhaps its toughest test last week. The Palestinian attack on Ma'alot and the Israeli reprisal raids on Lebanon (TIME, May 27) had appeared to wreck chances for a disengagement agreement between Syria and Israel. Only a few days after those tragedies, however, the U.S. Secretary of State reported "substantial agreement in form and content" as talks went on. But nailing down that agreement, in a stepped-up round of shuttle flights between Jerusalem and Damascus, proved to be an exhausting and frustrating chore...
...three Palestinians had reached Ma'alot. They began pounding on doors of an apartment building...
...release of the prisoners they sought. The prisoners and half the hostages were to be flown to Damascus. There, a code word (Al Aqsa, from the famous mosque of Jerusalem) would be given to the French ambassador to Syria, who would relay it via Paris to Ambassador Herly at Ma'alot. Only then would the hostages be released. The situation, said Major General Shlomo Gazit, Israel's intelligence chief, became "a mission impossible...
...private discussions after Ma'alot, Syrian officials did not condone the Arab raids or condemn Israel for retaliating. To U.S. diplomats that was a clear sign that the Syrians ? despite their support of the Palestinian cause ? did not want last week's twin massacres to interfere with negotiations. When Kissinger at one point suggested that the talks could be postponed temporarily, both sides insisted that he continue...
...year-old company, the S.S. Kresge Co. of Troy, Mich., got off to a very late start. It was not until the mid-1960s that the firm hit its stride in the discount merchandise field. Today it is the third largest and fastest-growing ma jor retail operation in the nation. Sales in 1973 amounted to $4.63 billion and in creased 24% hi the first quarter of 1974. Kresge Chairman and Chief Executive Robert E. Dewar wants to lift sales to $12 billion by 1980 and leave current front runners J.C. Penney (No. 2) and Sears, Roebuck...