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...renewal of the mandate a cliffhanger by presenting some new - and to Israel, unacceptable - demands. Syria argued that any extension of the U.N. force should be tied to a Security Council decision on rights for the Palestinians and to a peace treaty, within six months, calling for Israeli withdrawal from all territory occupied during the Six-Day War of 1967. In fact, last week Syrian President Hafez Assad suggested that the Security Council rather than Geneva should be the forum for future negotiations...
Vocal Hawks. If anything, the Syrians are even more adamant than the Egyptians in insisting that Israel must return all Arab lands seized during the Six-Day War. The diplomatic problem is that the Israelis have created on the Golan Heights what they euphemistically refer to as "new facts"−no fewer than 18 settlements containing 2,500 people, who have replaced the 70,000 Syrians who lived there prior to 1967. Since the region has ample water and long, sunny summers, the hard-working farmers have become prosperous. More significantly, since they occupy the sites from which Syrian bunkers...
Jews themselves once argued heatedly about the merits of Zionism, after the old religious yearning for the biblical homeland was translated into a national liberation movement to create a Jewish state in Palestine. For most Jews the argument became moot in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973, which represented unmistakable threats to the existence of Israel. Arab leaders frequently make a distinction between Judaism, which they claim to respect as a biblical religion that is a spiritual precursor of Islam, and Zionism, which they see as an outdated colonialist...
...down in an unexpected small diplomatic snarl. The Egyptian representatives who showed up to reclaim the fields were not Egyptians but three cigar-chomping Texans who work for Mobil Oil; the corporation owns 50% of the Egyptian company that had operated the fields before Israel captured them during the Six-Day War. The Israelis in charge of Ras Sudr insisted that the Texans had to sign for the Arab Republic of Egypt. Well, no, said Engineering Consultant Billy Marcum of Dallas; he and his buddies were empowered to sign only for Mobil. Israeli Representative Meir Gueron replied that the Jewish...
...classic impasse over money v. productivity. The union is demanding a 50% raise to be prorated over the next three years on the minimum weekly salary of $290, for a seven-performance, five-day week. The League has countered with a minimum of $400 for an eight-performance, six-day week, provided that the musicians give up bonuses for such extras as performing onstage and playing more than one instrument. Says Schoenfeld: "It's incredible! They even want an increase for 'walkers...