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...letter of the disengagement agreement but to exceed its requirements. The withdrawal from the west bank, which is supposed to take 28 days to complete, was actually begun two days early. At the same time, Israeli forces voluntarily handed back six wounded Egyptian prisoners captured since the October truce and made plans to return 89 other unwounded Egyptian P.O.W.s taken prisoner along the cease-fire lines...
Disengagement is the sixth and ultimate point of Henry Kissinger's ceasefire agreement worked out in early November. The Egyptian position is that in accepting the earlier five points, including U.N. truce observers and an exchange of prisoners of war, Cairo gave more than it got. Thus the Egyptians maintain in public that the sixth point, disengagement, should be carried out unilaterally by the Israelis. Privately, both sides broadly hint that they expect a settlement on the issue this month...
...soon be able to show not only his own people but also more intractable Arab leaders that his strategy of trusting Kissinger and going the negotiating route can produce better results than a resumption of fighting. For its part, Israel would prefer an agreement to end the rash of truce violations that have claimed 14 dead and 60 wounded since the ceasefire. In one incident last week, three Israeli soldiers were killed when Syrian mortar shells hit their trench. On the Suez front on election day, there were 72 incidents involving mortar fire, small arms and antitank missiles. Israeli leaders...
Latin class was over. She stiffly wished Happy Holidays, and Felix Annus Bonus knew that we had not made everlasting per or even called a holiday truce...
Despite happy fraternizing by troops of the opposing armies outside, Yariv and el Gamasi were stiff and precise. They spoke in English with Siilasvuo but not to each other. They signed three English copies of the Kissinger agreement and then adjourned. Scarcely 24 hours later, the truce came close to being shattered. The trouble was, as Israeli Deputy Premier Yigal Allon told a television audience, that the agreement was "a typical Kissinger document. Each side can find [in it] whatever it wishes...