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...news continued to engulf the White House, Nixon made a show of tending to more important matters. He went on television to express satisfaction in announcing the negotiated separation of Egyptian and Israeli forces on the Suez front (see THE WORLD). But he looked haggard, and phrased his thoughts uncertainly in a quavering voice. He took to radio to discuss the energy crisis. He called in photographers and reporters as he discussed his State of the Union message plans with House Republican Leader Rhodes...
...praise and affection were certainly deserved, for Kissinger almost singlehanded had worked out an agreement to disengage Israeli and Egyptian forces along the Suez Canal. He had achieved what President Nixon called "the first significant step toward a permanent peace in the Middle East...
Meanwhile, yet another agreement was being jointly signed in the tent at Kilometer 101 on the Cairo-Suez road, where the disengagement talks had commenced three months ago. Under the watchful eye of the United Nations representative, Lieut. General Ensio Siilasvuo of Finland, the chiefs of staff of Israel and Egypt each placed their names. Then Israeli General David Elazar and Egyptian General Mohamed Abdel Ghani el Gamasi sat down over coffee to discuss implementation of their agreement. The document they had signed allowed each side five days to plan a withdrawal of forces to new and separate positions...
...settlement pledged the belligerents to a "scrupulous" observance of disengagement, defined the broad perimeters of troop reduction and its timing, and emphasized that disengagement around the Suez Canal was only the first step toward a "final, just and durable peace." According to reports in Jerusalem, it allows the Egyptians to keep a token force of eight battalions, or 7,000 men and only 30 tanks, in the desert...
...political complication on either side was the same: what diplomats refer to as linkage. Israel was prepared to pull back 20 miles from the Suez Canal to positions at Sinai's Mitla and Giddi passes. In return, Jerusalem expected Egypt to thin out its armor and artillery in Sinai, reopen the Suez Canal and, as a buffer, repopulate its ports of Ismailia, Suez and Port Said with civilians who fled the bitter cross-canal bombardments of the post-1967 war of attrition. Israel also insisted that Egypt issue a declaration forswearing further belligerency. For its part, Egypt wanted Israel...