Word: syrians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue of Foreign Policy magazine, Sheehan praises Kissinger as having been "at the apogee of his skill" during those negotiations (TIME, March 15). The article quotes directly from the dialogue of Kissinger's conversations with such leaders as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli former Premier Golda Meir and Syrian President Hafez Assad...
...bombers, unpiloted drone planes and hundreds of antiaircraft missiles. Its 50 Scud surface-to-surface missiles can reach virtually all of Israel's populated areas. To enable Damascus to operate properly all its new, ultrasophisticated military hardware, there are now more than 2,000 Soviet advisers with the Syrian armed forces, while Cubans serve in Syrian tanks and North Koreans and Pakistanis fly some of the MIGS...
...Syrian President, of course, may decide to exploit his strength by hurrying to the conference table. After all, he seems to want to strike some bargain with Israel. Moreover, he has never joined the so-called "rejection front" of Libya, Iraq and the Palestinians, who refuse to have anything to do with the Israelis. The choice is now Assad's, and never before has a Syrian decision had so potentially great an impact...
...Syrians stabilized a political situation that they themselves made and imposed on Lebanon through the full control of the Palestinians. The Syrians achieved their intermediate goal. Under the threat of invasion from the P.L.A., the leaders there accepted it. The Syrian success in Lebanon shows how difficult it is to move toward peace...
...Syrian game is based on the assumption that in [1976] the U.S. is softer and the capabilities for them to blackmail the U.S. for political concessions are better. I hope that after the American veto in the Security Council this week they will reconsider this position...