Word: syrian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...person of Henry Kissinger. At present, the kind of crisis situation that Kissinger needs to start a fruitful dialogue does not exist. Washington's relations with the Palestinians are even worse than its relations with Damascus were when the Israeli-Syrian disengagement talks began. Equally important, neither Israel's fragile new coalition government nor Jordan's harassed King Hussein is in any position to make territorial or political concessions...
...assert that "on Sept. 22 [Egyptian President Anwar] Sadat informed [Soviet Party Chief Leonid] Brezhnev that the war would begin on Oct. 6. As far as one can tell, the Russian leader raised no objections." Although "there was a steady flow of intelligence indicating plans for an imminent Egyptian-Syrian attack, the political leaders of Israel and the United States, incredibly, failed to recognize it." On Oct. 5, Kissinger was at the Waldorf Towers in New York City for the General Assembly session. He did not receive a report from Ray Cline, then head of the State Department...
...warning had no effect, and on Tuesday, Oct. 9, Kissinger received intelligence reports of "an increase in the number of Soviet supply ships steaming toward Syrian and Egyptian ports...
Down the road, meanwhile, the U.N. troops were folding up tents in which Israeli and Syrian officers had worked out the details of the cease-fire and disengagement. "They didn't play Ping Pong here, no sir," an Irish colonel said, indicating inside the largest tent a Ping Pong table used by U.N. officers as a conference board. "They didn't even talk to each other." Instead, a Syrian officer would stand at the entrance at one end of the tent and an Israeli officer would stand at the entrance at the other end. A U.N. officer would...
...Quneitra, Israeli engineers using acetylene torches were taking down Syrian-installed electric poles and carting them away. Except for a few buildings in the center of town, the church and three mosques, nearly everything else had been flattened in the fighting or gutted by the withdrawing Israelis. When Syrians return to take control of the 70-year-old provincial capital of the Golan this week, they will find no more than a pile of rubble and refuse...