Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Landon Lecture at Kansas State University. Nixon went on to Chicago, where he, Kissinger and Sisco spent 90 minutes discussing the memo. Nixon's deepest worry was that the Israeli troops perched on the Golan Heights and the West Bank of occupied Jordan might not resist the temptation to attack the commandos. Kissinger learned that full civil war had indeed erupted. He awakened Nixon at 3 a.m. with the bad news. Nixon decided not to inflate the crisis at that point by cutting his trip short and returning to Washington...
...agreement. A second display of weakness might be highly damaging. He kept a date with editors of the Chicago Sun-Times and Daily News?and deliberately took an overly tough line. Nixon hinted that the U.S. might use the holding of the airline hostages as a handy excuse to attack the commandos. In an odd bit of gamesmanship, a mixture of guile and almost naive candor, the President indicated that it might be beneficial if the Soviets thought the U.S. capable of "irrational or unpredictable" action...
...Syrians Attack...
They did turn back on the very next day, though U.S. pressure was probably not the major reason. The most significant cause seemed to be the devastating counterattack launched by the Jordanian troops and aircraft (see THE WORLD). The threat of a flanking Israeli attack also worried the Syrians. The failure of Iraq to join them hurt too. Yet it was also likely, as one White House official claimed, that "the threat of intervention helped to stabilize the situation...
...Mohammed Zayyat maintained in a Face the Nation telecast that all the missiles had been in the zone when the cease-fire began. But he suggested that Cairo would be willing to pull them back in return for a U.S. guarantee that Israel would never launch a pre-emptive attack on Egypt...