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...passes are the only viable routes through the Sinai mountains for armies moving either toward the Suez Canal or away from it toward the Israeli border. Israel, which controls the passes, has offered to pull back to their eastern end, where it maintains electronic listening equipment to monitor Egyptian troop movements. Egypt's Sadat, on the other hand, demands that Israel pull out of both passes completely. He has threatened not to renew the mandate of the United Nations peace-keeping forces, presently wedged between the two opposing armies in the Sinai. The latest mandate is due to expire...
...accept the U.S.-Egyptian terms. Under one proposal, which neither Jerusalem nor Cairo has explicitly rejected, the two passes could be demilitarized and put under control of United Nations forces. But U.S. technicians would man the monitors, much as American satellites on orbits over the Sinai now take troop-disposition pictures that are provided to both Egypt and Israel...
...strained relations between the two governments also aroused a few suspicions (quickly denied in Washington) that U.S. intelligence, in order to embarrass Rabin, might have leaked stories to the effect that recent Israeli troop withdrawals in Sinai were not what they seemed to be. At the end of Ford's meeting with Sadat, the Israelis, as a token of their interest in peace, announced that they were thinning out their 7,000 troops in the Limited Forces Zone in the Sinai. As it turned out, the Israelis had earlier reduced their forces to about 3,500; in some sectors...
Kissinger's pre-eminent role must come to an end. His approach is too limited, his plans too global, for either side to rely on him entirely. His attempt to arouse anti-Israel sentiment in this country, and pressure the Rabin government into accepting his scheme for a troop withdrawal should be recognized as a cruel and reckless response of a man who fears that his role as the power to be reckoned with is in danger...
...which they did not start served as a prelude to further Kissinger involvement in the area. Since the end of the war, he has, through the use of techniques know as the "step-by-step approach," or "shuttle diplomacy," achieved one military disengagement in the Golan Heights. Israeli troop withdrawals in the Sinai, and generally created the impression that the situation in the Mideast has significantly improved. However, Kissinger has yet to convince the Arabs to deal with Israel on a political rather than military level, and his last attempt at bringing about a third withdrawal of Israeli forces...