Word: syrians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middle East. At U.N. Post 512 in the Sinai, a joint Israeli-Egyptian commission held its first meeting to work out details of the Israeli withdrawal from an area including the Ras Sudr oilfields; that move is now scheduled to be completed by mid-November. Almost simultaneously, Syrian and Israeli troops clashed on the Golan Heights. It was the first such incident since the Syrian-Israeli disengagement in May 1974. The Syrian strategy seemed clearly designed to discredit Sadat in the Arab world on the eve of his departure to Washington. Damascus apparently intends to raise tension on the Golan...
...million people back together again by proposing a "Committee of National Reconciliation" comprising representatives of Lebanon's various religious and political groups. Syria, which is anxious to maintain a stable Lebanon as a buffer along Israel's northern border, also entered the peace-making effort. Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam arrived in Beirut late in the week to help negotiate the fragile ceasefire...
Sadat fought back shrewdly, brushing off charges that he had gotten too far out in front of other Arab nations. Especially sensitive to criticism from Damascus, which gained nothing in the latest round, Sadat told an interviewer: "Ford is personally working on a disengagement on the Syrian front. Syria knows there are particular matters we agreed on with the Americans." Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy said flatly that there would soon be a new disengagement on the Golan Heights. That prompted Israeli conservatives to demand-and get-a special parliamentary session for this week to debate the issue...
Preliminary discussions leading to a new Syrian-Israeli agreement may well get under way some time next month as the Israeli and Syrian foreign ministers make separate visits to Washington, with Kissinger acting as their go-between. Negotiations over Golan, however, promise to be considerably tougher than those over Sinai. At least initially, Jerusalem is expected to resist anything more than minor adjustments. From Israel's viewpoint, as a high-level Jerusalem official told TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin with extraordinary candor, deliberate delay is especially advantageous...
...decorative pattern breaks up the surface. It volatilizes what once was solid, rendering substance−bronze, stucco, tile or parchment−almost immaterial. This was no less true of relatively small objects like a 13th century Syrian canteen in silver inlaid brass (see color page), with its elaborate conflation of Islamic and Christian imagery arranged in dense concentric bands, than of vast architectural projects like the tile-work of the Alhambra in Granada. It is hard−perhaps impossible−to hold the entire pattern in one's mind, even when looking...