Word: siilasvuo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Trim in his gray Finnish army uniform, General Ensio Siilasvuo inspected representatives of five nations facing him in Geneva's Palais des Nations last week. Groping for nonmilitary words that would truly express the emotion of the moment, the commander of the United Nations peace-keeping forces told them that they were taking "a giant and courageous step" that heralded "a new era of trust, justice and peace in the Middle East...
With that, Siilasvuo invited representatives of Israel and Syria to sign the disengagement agreement between their countries that U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had successfully negotiated during a month of difficult and dramatic shuttle diplomacy. Major General Herzl Shafir signed immediately for Israel. Syrian Brigadier Adnanwajih Tayara, presumably because his government was still uneasy about dealing with an enemy of 26 years, would sign only after newsmen had been cleared from a gallery overlooking the chamber...
Meanwhile, yet another agreement was being jointly signed in the tent at Kilometer 101 on the Cairo-Suez road, where the disengagement talks had commenced three months ago. Under the watchful eye of the United Nations representative, Lieut. General Ensio Siilasvuo of Finland, the chiefs of staff of Israel and Egypt each placed their names. Then Israeli General David Elazar and Egyptian General Mohamed Abdel Ghani el Gamasi sat down over coffee to discuss implementation of their agreement. The document they had signed allowed each side five days to plan a withdrawal of forces to new and separate positions...
...talks-which were dubbed "Kilometer 3152" by one Tel Aviv newspaper, based on its calculation of the distance between Switzerland and Israel -began last week. The man in charge was the tenacious, even-handed Finnish commander of the U.N. Emergency Force (UNEF) in the Middle East, Lieut. General Ensio Siilasvuo, who had also presided over the talks at Kilometer 101. Israel's chief representative was Major General Mordechai Gur, his country's military attaché in Washington, while the Egyptian side was led by Brigadier General Taha El Magdoub, Cairo's assistant chief of military operations...
...bank, boasted that his troops are ready to fight. "Give me an order from Cairo," he exclaimed, "and I'll push on!" Israel Defense Minister Moshe Dayan scoffed at the Egyptian saber rattling. "The Egyptian Third Army was broken, and is kept alive by our mercy," he told Siilasvuo. "If the Egyptians want to start the war again, the blood will be on their heads...