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...news broke in midweek, calling for quick action on the part of TIME'S twelve correspondents and photographers stationed in the Middle East. In Israel, Photographer David Rubinger took color pictures of Premier Golda Meir's jubilant announcement of the troop disengagement, but the event occurred too late to chance sending the film to New York by normal commercial air express. At 1 a.m., Thursday, Rubinger's wife Anni, herself a professional photographer, was dispatched as a courier, and by that afternoon she was in TIME'S Manhattan offices with the pictures...
...with joy. At airports in both Damascus and Tel Aviv, weeping, surging crowds welcomed wounded soldiers who hobbled or were carried off Red Cross airplanes. Kissinger himself celebrated the end of hostilities in the Israeli capital by unexpectedly planting an exuberant buss on the cheek of retiring Premier Golda Meir. Recovering her composure, Mrs. Meir chided the Secretary of State, "I didn't think that you kissed women too"?a reference to the spate of pictures showing Kissinger being hugged by Arab leaders...
...unswerving devotion to the cause of peace, Secretary Kissinger has without question earned the honor now"?although Times Columnist James Reston, among others, had doubts about the propriety of a Secretary of State's being so tied down to a single problem for so long a tune. Mrs. Meir hailed the fact that "children on both sides of the border can sleep well without terror. This is what we hope for our people and for our neighbors." Said she to a beaming Kissinger: "I don't know how you have done it, but you have done it." In Cairo...
...only very preliminary steps to peace, and he must carefully protect them. He must also see that negotiations move forward, as Egypt and Syria both expect them to. Although Israel's new government is generally more moderate toward the Arabs than was the outgoing regime of Golda Meir, it nevertheless would like the present disengagement lines to become permanent. Only Kissinger will be able to persuade Rabin and his colleagues otherwise...
...Jerusalem to meet Israeli Premier Golda Meir's negotiators...