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There came the day when Sadat asked that the road to Suez City be opened because it was his daughter's wedding day, a request more personal than official. Kissinger took it to the Israelis, who granted it. Then there was the time when the Israelis wanted to send a party, accompanied by rabbis, to retrieve the bodies of some of their dead soldiers from Egyptian soil. The request might have been laughed at earlier, but found immediate sympathy and was approved...
Black spirals of smoke dirtied the blue sky over the Suez Canal last week, and the thud of explosives shattered the desert stillness. They were the tocsins of peace, not war The smoke was from stores being burned by the 40,000-man Israeli force before it withdrew tanks and guns from a bridgehead west of the canal captured last October. The explosions were from the captured or unused ammunition and mines that were being destroyed...
...this activity signaled the beginning of Israeli disengagement from Egyptian territory west of the Suez Canal under the terms of the agreement worked out by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. It also marked the first time in almost 20 years that Israeli forces have voluntarily pulled back from captured Arab territory...
...Israeli troops began to withdraw from the western bank of the Suez Canal last week, TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin made a final tour of the area just before Israeli officials banned newsmen from watching the disengagements. His report...
...muddy blue and white Tel Aviv bus, with its sign, "In military service," halted near Suez city, 85 miles east of Cairo. This was the last stop before the Egyptian-Israeli cease-fire line 13 miles farther south. The ginger-haired civilian driver opened the door alongside a platoon of soldiers waiting by their halftracks at the edge of the road. "This line is closing down," he said happily. "See you in Tel Aviv." The soldiers cheered and clapped their hands. They were getting...