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First there was the War of Independence, then the Sinai war, the Six-Day War, the war of attrition, the Yom Kippur War-and now the water war. Last week, when Soviet minesweepers intruded into Israel's waters in the Gulf of Suez, Israeli Hornet patrol boats confronted them. What could the Russians do to rid themselves of the pesky Israelis? The Soviet captain finally decided on an unusual tactic: he had his crew fire water cannons at the Israeli boats, causing them to duck out of range. But they remained on station, and the Soviets finally left...
...other hand, détente finally paid off in the Middle East. The Russians had seemed ready to exploit every anti-U.S. opportunity in the area and, in particular, massively armed Syria. But after the Yom Kippur War, they played second fiddle to Kissinger's spectacular effort for peace and saw their own influence decline. The changed U.S. attitude toward the Arabs, from blind backing of Israel to what Nixon had described as a more evenhanded policy, was among the most important of all of Nixon's foreign policy accomplishments...
...Promised Land, a new documentary by Susan Sontag, takes a look at Israel just after the Yom Kippur War. Sontag has been serving her film-making apprenticeship for a long time, and with this film her efforts come to fruition. It's playing at the Central Cinema...
Defense Secretary James Schlesinger was asked by TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter to recount the Department of Defense's role in the decisions to ship U.S. arms to Israel during the Yom Kippur War. The Defense Secretary's version of that critical week's decisive events...
...Arab friendship, which Kissinger is constructing, they fear, at Israel's expense. Another unsettling point was that last week's meeting came at an unpropitious time. Israel is still undergoing a domestic political crisis resulting from the widespread disenchantment with its leaders' conduct of the Yom Kippur War. Golda Meir is a caretaker Premier; the Labor Party's Premier-designate, Yitzhak Rabin, selected to succeed her two weeks ago, was still trying to form a coalition government. Thus Kissinger's initial discussions involved a strange coterie of old and new Israeli power wielders. They included...