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...equally evident. As a new Knesset was sworn in-with Premier Golda Meir* as its oldest member taking the oath first-the Labor-dominated government won easy approval (76-35) for the disengagement agreement. In addressing the Knesset, Mrs. Meir announced that Israel does not consider the eventual pullback line in the Sinai -to be reached 12 days after the west bank retirement is finished-as a permanent border. "It has been our position from the start," she said, "that the separation of forces is not the ultimate goal, for we are prepared to negotiate with Egypt on a durable...
...Israeli troops began their negotiated pullback from the west bank of the Suez Canal last week, Egypt could look forward for the first time in 6½ years to regaining full control-by March 5-of its canal. Blockaded and unused except as a bitter point of confrontation since the June 1967 war, the channel had previously served for 98 years as a crucial waterway between continents, a ribbon of commerce along which East met West. Indeed, its completion in 1869 was deemed such a historic occasion for Western Europe's mercantile ambitions that elaborate dedication ceremonies were attended...
...early autumn. Treasury Secretary George Shultz last week said that Middle East troop disengagement (see THE WORLD) would lead to a relaxation of that embargo; but he did not predict when. Saudi officials have declared that they would keep it clamped on until the Israelis agreed to a complete pullback behind 1967 borders. Simon expects that if there is a political solution to the embargo, "there will be compelling reasons to roll the price [of oil] back." Yet even a quick restoration of the Arab oil flow would not ease tight supplies in the U.S. immediately, and prices would remain...
...Port Said with civilians who fled the bitter cross-canal bombardments of the post-1967 war of attrition. Israel also insisted that Egypt issue a declaration forswearing further belligerency. For its part, Egypt wanted Israel to carry out a unilateral withdrawal beyond the passes and declare that this pullback was a forerunner of an eventual withdrawal from all Israeli-occupied Egyptian territory...
Obviously in preparation for the Kissinger talks, the Soviet Union dispatched Kosygin to Cairo, where he conferred with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. There were unconfirmed reports that Kosygin made specific proposals for a peace plan, including a "partial" Israeli pullback from the 1967 cease-fire lines and a DMZ, separating Israel from its neighbors, that would be patrolled by U.N. troops, some of them from the U.S. and Russia. Kosygin had been back in Moscow for only a few hours before Kissinger...