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Diplomats in Washington and at the U.N. were cautiously pleased that the prisoner deal had been worked out and that the cease-fire across the Suez Canal was holding. Yet there were serious doubts about what would happen next, particularly as far as Israel was concerned. The prisoner problem is an intensely emotional one for the Israelis. Despite the agreement with Egypt on the exchange, there were no negotiations with Syria regarding the 130 or so prisoners it holds. Last week in Israel, and even in Cairo, there were disturbing rumors of Israelis being tortured and mutilated. Israel...
...signing took place on Sunday in an olive-drab army tent set up in the sand alongside the highway from Cairo to Suez. The point, known as Kilometer 101, marks the farthest Israeli advance into Egypt before shooting stopped on Oct. 25. Inside the tent, at a U-shaped table covered with gray military blankets, three delegations sat down. Finnish Major General Ensio Siilasvuo, 51, the ruddy-faced commander of the Emergency Force, represented the U.N. Major General Aharon Yariv, 53, Israel's former intelligence chief and an adviser to Golda Meir, represented Israel. Major General Mohamed Abdel Ghani...
Still, on either side of the present truce lines in the Suez there was ultimately a feeling that Kissinger's opening had given the Middle East its best chance for peace in 25 years. All that was needed now was daring in carrying out the details to match the daring that had set them in motion...
Until the announcement of the U.S.-endorsed cease-fire plan, most people in Cairo seemed resigned to a new round of fighting, but there was no hysteria, no jingoism. Even with Americans, who are blamed for giving Israel the weapons that allowed its armies to cross the Suez Canal, Cairenes are patient and polite. "All we want is to have our own land back, and then everybody can live in peace," says one woman. "Tell the Americans that we want to make peace and finish with all this war," says the custodian of a cemetery in the Coptic quarter...
...Sadat for reasonable approaches. One sign of the new realism, they feel, is that even as U.S.-made tanks were positioned against them not far from the city's outskirts, representatives of an American firm were discussing details of a projected $345 million pipeline from the Gulf of Suez to the Mediterranean. Cairenes appear to be more puzzled than angry at American support of their enemy, and they were simply perplexed by last week's cease-fire agreement. "I thought we were not going to make any concessions to Israel until we had the meat in our hands...