Word: syrians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deep-set Syrian arch on the Widener side and the fortress doors that open wider than any other Harvard entrances can't prepare us for the horrors of dilapidation that wait inside. The clattering pipes, the papering done over in a demon green, the creaking stairs. The deceptiveness of time an place: no clocks, uneasy room-numberings that make us jump from floor to floor. Use of the word "egress." When H.H. Richardson designed the building in 1878 he and his associates paid careful attention to the details of the inside; and the outside, as well, was keyed to function...
...Syrian President Assad may well consent to a renewal of the U.N. mandate. Meanwhile he has made it known that he wants something "con crete" in return-for example, a sign that Israel is prepared to return to a resumed Geneva conference. Syria, like its chief supporter and arms supplier, the Soviet Union, still sees Geneva talks as the proper vehicle for achieving a final settlement. As a heavyhanded way of underscoring Moscow's support at a ticklish moment, a small Soviet naval flotilla-a cruiser, a destroyer and a submarine-dropped anchor at Latakia as the U.N. mandate...
...current rise in tension. The Israelis were too inflexible in their refusal to deal with Jordan over the West Bank in recent months, some U.S. officials believe, thereby weakening King Hussein and strengthening Arafat's position at the Rabat summit. But more important, in the U.S. view, Syrian President Assad, has been pursuing a "stalemate strategy" of seeking to prevent progress toward an Israeli settlement with Jordan and Egypt until Israel makes some concessions -like a partial withdrawal on the Golan Heights-to Syria as well...
Sweet, Fat Years. At Rabat, accordingly, Assad shrewdly maneuvered to promote Arafat at the expense of Hussein. The Syrian President knew that a public political victory for the P.L.O. would be not only an outright defeat for Hussein but a private diplomatic setback for Sadat., Assad's motive: believing as he does that Egypt and Jordan were the chief Arab beneficiaries of Kissinger's step-by-step approach to a settlement, he wanted to force a return to Geneva, where he felt Syria would have a better chance of extracting concessions from Israel. "This is the best card...
...Diplomacy. Moreover, TIME learned last week from a ranking Soviet diplomat in Damascus that a letter had recently been sent by Leonid Brezhnev to Assad asking the Syrian leader to remain calm. Brezhnev wrote that the Soviets would "make every possible effort" to have the Geneva Conference reconvene as soon as possible but probably not before the Soviet leader's visit to Syria in January. In exchange for such an assurance, the Soviet diplomat added, the Syrians were "very likely" to renew the U.N. mandate before it expires Nov. 30. To do otherwise, as the Syrians must know, would...