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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...
...operations of the U.N. troops; the Chinese will ante up nothing at all. And Soviet Ambassador to the U.N. Yakov Malik was continuing to try to bring the emergency force under the control of the Security Council, where Russia has a veto, rather than under Secretary General Kurt Waldheim. The U.S. opposes Malik's demand...
...sour relations between burly Soviet Delegate Yakov Malik and the U.S.'s acerbic Ambassador John Scali broke into a nasty public spat. In a shrewd parliamentary maneuver, Malik tried to get certain changes he favored incorporated in a revised text of a report by Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim on the U.N. force. Scali, who thought that he had reached agreement with Malik on the report in a behind-the-scenes huddle, was apoplectic. "Breach of faith!" he shouted, shaking his finger at Malik, as other delegates watched in stunned dismay. "Nonsense!" Malik shouted back. As a result...
...words directed more to the Soviets than to his Washington audience: "None of the issues that are involved in the observance of the cease-fire would warrant unilateral action." Even as he spoke, the Security Council was considering yet another Middle East resolution, which would authorize Secretary-General Waldheim to create an emergency force to police the cease-fire rather than merely observe the two sides.* Kissinger had proposed that the resolution be amended to exclude the representatives of the Council's five permanent members (the U.S., U.S.S.R., China, Britain and France...
Nixon said the United States will send observers to help oversee the Middle East cease-fire in response to a request by U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. The Soviet Union has already announced it will send observers...