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...ignored each other, staring blankly into space or at Siilasvuo. Eventually, he passed out the giant blue folders containing the nine articles of accord and accompanying maps for a second-stage disengagement agreement between Israeli and Egyptian forces in Sinai. Without comment, representatives of each side−Major General Taha Maghdoub for the Egyptians and Ambassador-designate to Paris and longtime Prime Ministerial Adviser Mordechai Gazit for the Israelis−signed. After Siilasvuo signed on behalf of the U.N., he asked, "The ceremony is over. Are there any points to be raised?" The delegates shook their heads. Then, as stiffly...
...Links. Actually, the biggest aspidistra had been sent because the talks were bogging down. The men charged with plotting preliminary military disengagement at Geneva-Israeli General Mordechai Gur and General Taha El Magdoub of Egypt-had done well enough with the "technical models" that they proposed for separating forces in Sinai. The difficulty was that on both sides, the proposed military moves were inextricably connected to political decisions that neither general could make.Thus, after two meetings last week, totaling 3½ hours at Geneva's Palais des Nations, the military talks adjourned and discussions shifted home...
...Union and the U.S., had opened the first formal Middle East peace talks since 1949. But after the top diplomats went home, it was the turn of the generals to grapple with the technicalities and tactics of disengagement. How successfully Major General Mordechai Gur of Israel and Brigadier General Taha El Mag-doub of Egypt dealt with those details would set the pace of negotiations...
...Emergency Force (UNEF) in the Middle East, Lieut. General Ensio Siilasvuo, who had also presided over the talks at Kilometer 101. Israel's chief representative was Major General Mordechai Gur, his country's military attaché in Washington, while the Egyptian side was led by Brigadier General Taha El Magdoub, Cairo's assistant chief of military operations...
...leader of the group, who called himself Captain Rafat, was later identified as Ali Taha, 34, a onetime Jerusalem tour guide and seasoned skyjacker. In 1968 he helped divert an El Al jet to Algeria, and two years later participated in one of the fedayeen's most spectacular feats: the simultaneous skyjacking of three jets to the Jordanian desert...