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...that Egyptian planners hope will revitalize their country's flagging economy. President Anwar Sadat had already announced extensive plans for free-trade zones, but it remained for Simon and Hegazi to nail down three crucial brass tacks: 1) an agreement to reinstate a 1963 accord, suspended after the Six-Day War, that pledges Egypt not to expropriate U.S. property without compensation, 2) a plan for a "joint development institute" in Cairo to advise U.S. firms on the feasibility of Egyptian projects, and 3) the creation of "senior working groups" of Egyptian and U.S. technocrats to survey periodically such development...
...only all the territory it lost in the October fighting, but also Quneitra, the Golan Heights provincial capital that Israel has held since '67. The recovery of the ruined city-a symbol of Damascus' determination to win back all the land it lost to Israel in the Six-Day War-touched off a day of emotional national celebration. TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager accompanied the exuberant Syrians into Quneitra and cabled this account...
...Egypt, there was another display of rejoicing. President Anwar Sadat chose the seventh anniversary of the start of the 1967 Six-Day War to visit his troops on the east bank of the Suez Canal. Sadat clambered up a 50-ft. embankment to visit one of the Bar-Lev Line strongpoints established by Israel after the '67 war and recaptured by Egyptian forces last fall. He told his assembled troops, standing at attention beside their tanks in the desert: "October 6, dear sons, has changed the history of the world militarily, economically and politically." One sign of that change...
...addition to returning all of the 154-sq.-mi. bulge captured in the October war, Israel will also surrender roughly 30 sq. mi. of Syrian territory captured during the Six-Day War of 1967, including Quneitra and the villages of Rafid and Butmiya. Some of this land behind the "purple line" (named for its usual color on Israeli military maps) had been planted hi potato fields and apple orchards. The surrender of the territory marks the first time that Israel has ever been persuaded to give up land worked by its settlers...
...commander of Israel's forces in the 1967 Six-Day War and a former Ambassador to Washington, Rabin was selected by a Labor Party Central Committee as Premier-designate after Golda Meir announced her resignation last April 11. Although widely respected by Israeli voters, Rabin has antagonized some members of the Labor establishment by excluding members of the dominant Mapai faction of the Labor Party from important Cabinet posts...