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...cease-fire deal, which Kissinger made public in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, also specifies that military officers of the two sides will confer in order to establish formal truce lines between the opposing armies. This proviso seems to settle what could have been a major sticking point in any settlement: the lines were so complicated and so difficult to sort out and define after the armies stopped fighting that it would have been almost impossible and certainly impolitic for U.N. observers to step in and establish different ones. Conferring among themselves, Israeli and Egyptian officers ought...
Still, on either side of the present truce lines in the Suez there was ultimately a feeling that Kissinger's opening had given the Middle East its best chance for peace in 25 years. All that was needed now was daring in carrying out the details to match the daring that had set them in motion...
...tank trailers, had all but obscured the "U.N." that had been painted on the once white vehicle. An Irish officer in a powder-blue beret shook his head. "How can we fix the lines as they were on Oct. 22 [the day of the first Security Council truce]? None of us were here then. We don't know where the parties were, and you can't believe either side. Our business now is to try to keep it from starting up again...
...departures of H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Richard Kleindienst and John Dean from his Administration, a chastened Richard Nixon paid a surprise visit to the White House briefing room. There he told startled reporters to "continue to give me hell every time you think I'm wrong." That truce flag fluttered only briefly, and now hostilities between the Administration and the press are more intense than ever. Nixon's Oct. 26 outburst at TV's "outrageous, vicious, distorted reporting" was quickly echoed last week by his staff, in-laws and friends...
Cease-fire violations along the jagged truce lines that separate the Israeli and Arab armies may continue for some time. But at week's end it was virtually certain that the fourth Middle East war since the founding of Israel in 1948 had come to an end, though at a terrible price. In 18 days of ferocious fighting, all the participants suffered heavy losses in both men and materiel; according to the U.S. Defense Department, as many as 7,700 Egyptians, 7,700 Syrians and 4,500 Israelis were killed or wounded, the largest number of casualties...