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...been rumored for months, but only last week did the Israeli government itself leak the news: Lieut. General Haim Bar-Lev, 47, chief of staff for the past four years and the man whose name was given to the Bar-Lev Line of Israeli fortifications along the Suez Canal, will leave the army at the end of the year in line with an Israeli tradition of generals retiring before they are 50. Bar-Lev's successor: his oldest friend and current second-in-command as chief of operations, Major General David ("Dado") Elazar...
...chief of operations during the Six-Day War, and later reshaped the Israeli army for the static "war of attrition" proclaimed by Egypt's late President Gamal Abdel Nasser in March 1969. Bar-Lev had his answer ready: a 100-mile line of forts, dug into the Suez sand, which weathered massive artillery assaults until the two sides agreed on a cease-fire last year. Meanwhile Elazar, also a monumentally calm commander, was backing up his chief by subduing the Arab fedayeen in the occupied territories...
Dayan earlier warned armored-corps officers that, with negotiations over a Suez Canal settlement at an impasse and with Egypt's President Anwar Sadat making threatening noises, "1972 will be a decisive year." Last week he declared: "I won't give my hand to cutting 100 or 200 tanks from our forces." His aides meanwhile put out stories that Israel would have to curtail purchases of bombs and shells and construction of forts if the defense budget were cut too sharply. Bar-Lev was no help to Dayan. He allowed that, if the cease-fire continued, reserve duty...
...years of confrontation," said Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, "it would have been a very different Southeast Asia." The annual cost of $630 million proved too great, however, and in 1966 Harold Wilson's Labor government announced that Britain would withdraw from east of Suez. Now that the Malaysian area has been quietly stabilized, Britain will station there only what the current Conservative government of Edward Heath describes as a "modest insurance premium"-one infantry battalion and a few miscellaneous units in a symbolic ANZUK force of 7,000 men, mainly from Australia and New Zealand...
...gasoline around an open fire. Sadat has pronounced 1971 the "year of decision" in the conflict with Israel, and officials in Jerusalem are all but daring him to try something. Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers is pressing his effort for an interim agreement that would reopen the Suez Canal and lead toward broader peace talks. While the Suez negotiations have got nowhere, both Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad and Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban have told Rogers, during meetings at his suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, that their governments want the talks to continue...