Word: truce
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...thing, there was the chance that the Russians and Egyptians had moved the highly mobile SA3 missiles from one point to another within the cease-fire zone without actually introducing new weapons. Another possible explanation was the abrupt timing of the truce. When U.S. Ambassador to Israel Walworth Barbour called on Dayan at noon on Friday, Aug. 7, the American diplomat suggested that the truce begin at midnight Saturday. Replied Dayan: "Let's make it now." Egypt and Russia reluctantly agreed to stop the shooting at midnight on Friday. Dayan was well aware of large-scale movements then...
...government of Premier Golda Meir issued a sudden, stunning alarm that the agreement had been violated. Israel had proof, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan said, that Egypt and the Soviet Union had whisked new missiles into the cease-fire zone, although both sides were specifically forbidden, according to the truce, to "change the military status quo" there. The time had come, Israel demanded, for the U.S. to perform its duty as both ally and peacemaker and get the weapons...
...showed that SA-2 and SA3 missile batteries had been moved roughly halfway inside the 32-mile-wide Egyptian cease-fire zone toward areas near the towns of Kantara and Ismailia (see map opposite). Altogether, eight batteries were installed, with some work completed on the second night after the truce was declared...
...pressure on both sides to extend it. Moreover, the Russians, who have apparently concluded that further conflict in the Middle East is not in their own interest, have continued to give strong backing to Rogers' effort. One example: after the Iraqis violently criticized Nasser for accepting the U.S. truce proposal, the Soviets summoned a high-level delegation. In Moscow, First Deputy Premier Kirill Mazurov told the Iraqis flatly that Russia holds the "profound conviction" that peace in the Middle East "meets the genuine interests of the Arab peoples...
...Laotian border. But U.S. commanders insist that there are no plans for a Cambodia-style lunge into Laos. For one thing, negotiations are now under way between the Vientiane government and the Communist Pathet Lao, and a thrust into Laos could shatter whatever fragile chances exist for a truce ending the seesawing conflict in that country...