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...Israelis and the Arabs clearly had a bad case of the jitters as they waited for the start of the Middle East peace conference in Geneva this week. Along the Suez and the Golan Heights there was a series of cease-fire violations-none serious, but all potentially dangerous. From the antagonists came threats and hints that they might boycott the talks. At week's end, U.S. officials admitted that the talks might be delayed "a day or two," but expressed confidence they would take place...
...November. Four of the six points in Kissinger's cease-fire plan have been satisfactorily carried out. One-the cease-fire itself-remains uncertain. But the most crucial of all, the "disengagement and separation of forces," has failed completely. Arab-Israeli negotiations at Kilometer 101 on the Cairo-Suez road were broken off two weeks ago by Egypt, which charged that the Israelis had no intention of pulling their forces back to the Oct. 22 lines. The United Nations Emergency Force negotiating tent at Kilometer 101 has remained empty ever since...
...tent at Kilometer 101 on the Cairo-Suez road, where Egyptian and Israeli officers had met to discuss ways of carrying out the ceasefire, remained empty all week. On both the Suez and Syrian fronts, United Nations observers reported increasing numbers of cease-fire violations, including an air duel over the Gulf of Suez fought by Israeli and Egyptian jets. From Tel Aviv and Cairo came warnings that full-fledged hostilities could be resumed at any moment...
...joined by the U.S., the Soviet Union and U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. Although Egypt late last week declared that it would attend the Geneva conference, it at first publicly hinted that it might not unless Israel first withdraws some of its troops from the west bank of the Suez Canal. Israel however has refused to budge until Egypt removes most of its troops and firepower from the east bank. This is the main reason why the talks at Kilometer 101 have been deadlocked...
...their resources and controlling their government. To be sure, the great powers of the world took an interest in the Middle East, and had no objection to trying to turn its people's suffering to their own advantage. England and France, alarmed by Egypt's nationalization of the Suez Canal, were happy to join Israel in invading Egypt...