Word: truce
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...Manhattan's U.N. building. But much of the week was consumed by his 11,344-mile round-trip flight to Israel. With the Middle East cease-fire due to expire Feb. 5, Jarring hopes to make enough progress so that both sides will agree to continue the truce and keep on talking. The Arabs charged that by drawing Jarring to Jerusalem, the Israelis were stalling in order to wreck the negotiations...
...fighting in South Viet Nam ceased for 24 hours last week, to mark a Christmas truce. Meanwhile a crucial but often forgotten war continues in Cambodia-and, with the advent of the dry season, is gaining in intensity. There the Communist forces, composed primarily of North Vietnamese regulars, plus some Viet Cong and Cambodian Khmer Rouge, are as determined as ever to isolate the capital of Phnom-Penh from the rest of the country and thus discredit or even oust the "salvation government" of Premier...
...sides in the Middle East, the 90-day cease-fire that ended earlier this month became a time of military reinforcement. Now, with a second 90-day truce under way and their armories in order, the Middle East governments seem to be turning inward, taking advantage of the respite to settle long-smoldering political problems. Last week, from Syria to Egypt, a frenzy of internal housekeeping was in progress...
...eager to resume fighting. While the cease-fire might thus have continued on a de facto basis, it was given formal support at almost the last moment. By a vote of 57-16, with 39 abstentions, the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution calling for extension of the truce for a second 90-day period. The Israelis dismissed the resolution, introduced by a bloc of Afro-Asian nations, as deliberately one-sided; it demanded withdrawal of Israeli troops from Arab territory, but it ignored the massive missile buildup that Egypt and the Soviet Union engineered on the canal...
...quiet signal came in the form of a dispatch from the United Nations to the authoritative Cairo newspaper Al Ahram. Previously, the Sadat administration said it would not extend the truce unless Israel agreed to resume peace talks under the aegis of Mediator Gunnar Jarring. In the Al Ahram story, Egyptian diplomats indicated that they would extend the cease-fire even without agreement on resumption of talks, but only for a 60-day period...