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Last week Finland's Lieut. General Ensio Siilasvuo, commander of the U.N. Emergency Force, dashed between Cairo and Tel Aviv attempting to break the impasse in the Kilometer 101 talks. He succeeded only in gaining a promise from Israel to be a bit more flexible. This did not satisfy Egypt, whose President, Anwar Sadat, has been under strong pressure from Arab hawks to be tougher...
...chief negotiators at Kilometer 101 were Egypt's Major General Mohamed Abdel Ghani el Gamasi, Israel's Major General Aharon Yariv, and the commander of the U.N. forces, Major General Ensio Siilasvuo of Finland, who presided over the meetings. At an earlier session, General Siilasvuo had asked each side to come back with a set of proposals that it thought might be acceptable to the other. On Thursday, after a three-day recess, the generals returned to face each other once again over Israeli coffee and Egyptian pastry...
Bristling mad after a visit to the trouble spot, General Siilasvuo ordered up an airplane and flew to Jerusalem to talk with Defense Minister Dayan. Siilasvuo said that he was willing to coordinate matters, then barked "but I don't have to ask any permission except from the U.N. to carry out my mandate." Replied Dayan defiantly: "If Suez is a free city, then why are the Egyptians negotiating with us? If they really think it is free, then let them try to take it." Eventually, the two men worked out an agreement on the agreement. Israel...
...sand alongside the highway from Cairo to Suez. The point, known as Kilometer 101, marks the farthest Israeli advance into Egypt before shooting stopped on Oct. 25. Inside the tent, at a U-shaped table covered with gray military blankets, three delegations sat down. Finnish Major General Ensio Siilasvuo, 51, the ruddy-faced commander of the Emergency Force, represented the U.N. Major General Aharon Yariv, 53, Israel's former intelligence chief and an adviser to Golda Meir, represented Israel. Major General Mohamed Abdel Ghani el Gamasi, 52, Egypt's assistant chief of staff, was sent by Cairo...
Despite happy fraternizing by troops of the opposing armies outside, Yariv and el Gamasi were stiff and precise. They spoke in English with Siilasvuo but not to each other. They signed three English copies of the Kissinger agreement and then adjourned. Scarcely 24 hours later, the truce came close to being shattered. The trouble was, as Israeli Deputy Premier Yigal Allon told a television audience, that the agreement was "a typical Kissinger document. Each side can find [in it] whatever it wishes...