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...Unfortunately, the differences on a number of key issues have proven irreconcilable. We, therefore, believe a period of reassessment is needed so that all concerned can consider how best to proceed toward a just and lasting peace." With that admission of failure, read to newsmen in Jerusalem by State Department Spokesman Robert Anderso. Henry Kissinger's latest venture in shuttle diplomacy came to an abrupt and unhappy end. After 17 days of almost continuous commuting between Israel and Egypt, the Secretary suspended his efforts to get a second-stage disengagement and returned to Washington to report to President Ford...
...Aswan Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy told newsmen that "because of the intransigent position of the Israelis it was not possible for [the Secretary] to succeed. Consequently, the Israeli government bears the sole responsibility for this failure." Answered an Israeli government spokesman, "Egypt refused all offers, and that ended the talks...
...people aboard the plane, referred to as "Nine Seventy" after its registration number, 8970. They include 25 State Department employees, ranging from Undersecretary of State Joseph J. Sisco down to secretaries, cryptographers and Secret Service men, whose hand baggage includes Israeli-made Uzi submachine guns. There are also 15 newsmen and an Air Force crew of twelve, headed by Major Douglas Glime, 37, a former combat pilot who logged 100 missions over North Viet Nam, and who sometimes startles his passengers by putting the big blue-and-white Boeing into tight fighter turns...
...mood of the talks. He shifts from on to off the record, or becomes the unspecified "senior official" who by now is a familiar passenger. When it suits his purpose, he obfuscates. "You must accept the fact," Kissinger will say, "that many problems you want to clear up as newsmen are those which as a diplomat it is in my interest to confuse...
...maintain an aura of mystery and tension. Last week the Secretary, dressed in blue shorts and a white terry-cloth beach jacket, was sunning himself beside the pool of the New Cataract Hotel in Aswan when an aide rushed up with a secret message. Kissinger walked away from attentive newsmen to read the missive. "Can we do that?" he asked. "Yes," replied the aide. Kissinger returned to talk with the reporters, but did not tell them until they boarded the plane that they were to make an unscheduled flight to Ankara...