...Western Europe, p. 2

Middle East, p. 7

Soviet Union, p. 13

KISSINGER MISSION: MIDWEEK OUTLOOK

Summary

As correspondents sought indications of progress toward Golan front disengage-
ment, foreign media considered some collateral aspects of the Middle East
situation.

The London *Financial Times* saw Secretary Kissinger "picking his way carefully but surely through the remaining obstacles in the way of a disengagement agreement..."

*Les Echos* of Paris asserted that his "bright optimism" of yesterday morning "was seriously dashed when it appeared in the afternoon that the two opposing parties were still far from exhausting their ability to practice chicanery and obstructionism."

The Syrian Arab News Agency, noting that "one of the senior officials accompanying Dr. Kissinger has referred to" the possibility that the Secretary "might conclude his present tour...without his efforts achieving the desired success," added the observation that "the U.S. official did not mention...Israel's responsibility for the complications..."

Nevertheless, Beirut's *an-Nahar* predicted that, "barring new developments, Syria will take the same step that Egypt has taken" in signing a disengagement agreement with Israel.

*Al Hamishmar* of Tel Aviv declared that "after the significant progress thus far achieved, Jerusalem does not believe that Syria will cause a breakdown."

Some observers meditated on the Soviet interest in the Middle East situation.

A byliner in *La Nation* of Paris said the fact "that the foreign minister of the most powerful state in the world can afford to be absent from his department for such a long time" was evidence that "a major game is being played out between the two superpowers in that part of the world."

Moscow broadcasts in Arabic continued to stress Soviet policy discouraging "half measures" such as disengagement in favor of an overall settlement at the Geneva peace conference. Its "Peace and Progress" broadcast to the Arab world yesterday asserted that "the true aims of American imperialism in the Middle East... are directed against the interests of the Arabs and against the cause of peace in this region."

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London: "Picking His Way Through Obstacles"

British media today emphasized the deliberate pace toward disengagement on the Syrian front.

Correspondent Alain Cass of the London *Financial Times* reported from Damascus:

"Dr. Kissinger appears to be picking his way carefully but surely through the remaining obstacles in the way of a disengagement agreement between Syria and Israel...."

"Syrian sources confirmed that a line of disengagement has, in principle, been agreed but there remained certain important caveats which were still to be negotiated and on which Syria remained insistent..."

Yesterday the correspondent wrote that the Syrian statement of Monday night which "maintained that Syria is determined that disengagement of forces would only constitute a first step towards the realization of its goal" was considered by observers "as an important reaffirmation of Syrian principles in the face of reports that an agreement on disengagement was imminent."

The paper's Jerusalem correspondent asserted today:

"Israel is endeavoring to obtain a memorandum of security requirements in the light of the new situation that will be created by the conclusion of a disengagement agreement and subsequent Israeli withdrawal."

"Taking a Slight Tumble?"

A Beirut correspondent wrote in today's independent *Times* of London: "The fluctuating fortunes of Dr. Kissinger's search for disengagement...appear to have taken a slight tumble." He said that although the Secretary "had earlier expressed optimism over an accord...this was tempered by a note of caution" yesterday.

British radio and television carried news reports of Secretary Kissinger's Middle East efforts. The BBC today cited the liberal *Guardian* of Manchester and London as seeing the Moscow visit of Libyan Prime Minister Jallud "as evidence of a convenient marriage for both partners, but hardly a large shift of power." It quoted the paper as saying that "it will also be a pleasant change for Moscow to be paid for its arms in a useful commodity, oil, rather than in evanescent good will."

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## Paris: "Yesterday's Hopes Dashed?"

Moderate-right _Aurore_ of Paris today headed its report on the Kissinger mission, "From Cautious Optimism to Moderate Pessimism," and that was the theme of French reporting generally.

Financial _Les Echos_ said Mr. Kissinger's "bright optimism" of yesterday morning "was seriously dashed when it appeared in the afternoon that the two opposing parties were still far from exhausting their ability to practice chicanery and obstructionism...

"It only remains to hope that, in the face of ever-rising tension, the leaders in Damascus and Jerusalem will finally let themselves be persuaded that Kissinger's mediation offers their two countries the best possible solution."

## "Travels Show U.S.-Soviet Concern"

A byliner remarked in Gaullist _La Nation_ that "it is surprising that the foreign minister of the most powerful state in the world can afford to be absent from his department for such a long time...

"But this is what is happening with Mr. Kissinger, and it is this that convinces us that a major game is being played out between the two superpowers in that part of the world. Americans and Soviets are equally concerned with the solution of a conflict which very nearly upset the balance between them when the first threats of direct confrontation, possibly entailing a world conflagration, appeared in the Mediterranean."

## "Secrets of a Super-magician"

Middle-of-the-road _Figaro_ of Paris carried a Jerusalem correspondent's observations about "the secret of Doctor K, the super-magician." He wrote:

"Dr. Kissinger's first principle is that the winner is generally the one who has the most information available; in the Middle East whirlwind, he is the only one--not the Arabs, the Israelis or the Russians--who knows everything about everything and everybody, and quicker.

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"His second principle... is to exploit to the fullest the contradictions between systems, rather than those between states...

"Finally, he seems more than ever before to be applying the principle he so often explained to his students: that a credible bluff is diplomatically more important and more rewarding than a dubious threat, however real."

## Kremlin Tries Pressure on Sadat Through Jallud"

Independent-left *Le Monde* of Paris remarked in an editorial on Libyan Premier Jallud's visit to Moscow that "the Tripoli regime, after a virulent anti-Soviet campaign and in disregard of its 'Islamic' position against 'godless Communism,' is apparently making an about-face...

"It is obviously pursuing several objectives: to secure the country's development by exchanging oil for Soviet capital goods and technical assistance...; to end Libya's international isolation; to conclude a tactical alliance with the Communist camp against President Sadat...

"These objectives are not in contrast with Soviet strategy for the Near East--far from it. Still on the best of terms with Iraq and having consolidated their relations with Syria, the masters of the Kremlin are trying to secure new allies in the region in order to exert pressure on Sadat and bring him back to the line traced out by the 'treaty of friendship and cooperation' signed in Cairo in May 1971."

## West Germany: "Thrives on Crisis"

West German media played the warning by a Kissinger aide against over-optimism but observers generally expected another, "miracle" in the form of a disengagement agreement.

The prestigious independent national weekly *Die Zeit*, out today, said in a front-page article:

"Once more, Henry Kissinger has shown that it is precisely in critical situations, even those in which nobody gives him a

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snowball's chance in hell, that he knows how to accomplish his
aims. Perhaps one day it will be said, and justly, and that he
really earned the Nobel Peace Prize--in the Middle East..."

"Highest Hurdle Still Ahead"

The pro-Christian Democratic weekly *Deutsche Zeitung* of Stuttgart front-paged an article titled, "Henry Kissinger's Second Miracle." It said a Syrian-Israeli disengagement was "immeasurably" more difficult to achieve than that between Egypt and Israel.

It concluded: "Kissinger's highest hurdle is still ahead. That is a solution of the Palestine problem..."

"Palestinian Problem Remains"

In a similar vein, today's pro-Christian Democratic *Bonner Rundschau* carried a
byliner's warning:

"As long as the problem of the Palestinians is not solved, Israel will be living through a period of risk. It must therefore be careful not to pay for Kissinger's policy with a peace agreement like the one South Vietnam signed. There, detente has not followed an armistice. In Vietnam Kissinger did not end a war. The success of his 'peace plan' was that it took the Vietnam fighting out of the world arena."

Expectations in Washington

Considerations of the U.S. home front occupied some writers.

Today's independent *Sueddeutsche Zeitung* of Munich mused:

"Many another foreign minister would be worried about losing his standing back home if he traveled as much as Kissinger. But Kissinger is committed to shuttling between Damascus and Jerusalem until the map of the Golan Heights is changed.

"For if he returns to Washington with empty hands, various executive chairs will start wobbling--and not just his own..."

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Yesterday's pro-Social Democratic Westfaelische Rundschau of Dortmund said "one aspect" of the Secretary's "shuttle" diplomacy was "that Kissinger, thanks to his political forcefulness, has won results that will be foreign policy laurels for a President beset with domestic troubles."

TV: "Palestinians Threaten, But New War Seems Impossible"

West German television's second network last night carried the view of a Middle East correspondent that "a Syrian-Israeli agreement seems at hand, but peace has not yet come to the Middle East.... We are approaching a particularly difficult phase: the search for Israeli-Palestinian detente."

"The Palestinians... intend to step up terrorism extensively within Israel and the occupied territory. Time will tell whether they will succeed..."

He concluded that "in any case, the Syrian-Israeli agreement will shift the balance toward a Middle East peace. A return to full-scale war already seems impossible."

Milan: "End of a Marathon"

Independent-conservative Corriere della Sera of Milan headlined today, "Golan Agreement Sunday in Geneva." Its Tel Aviv correspondent wrote:

"Nobody disguises the fact that the main difficulties are already overcome. This leads one to believe that barring an unexpected turn of events, Kissinger's diplomatic marathon is about to have a positive ending."

New Delhi: "Adroit Diplomacy"

The influential *Indian Express* of Bombay, New Delhi and Madras declared yesterday: "This adroit diplomacy has won another triumph, which is all the more significant because it has been achieved despite tensions aroused by recent acts of guerrilla terror and counter-terror by Israel."

Pro-Congress Party National Herald of New Delhi and Lucknow observed that "the Secretary of State seems to have spoken the right words to various leaders. As a diplomat, he has proved his mettle."

Papers judged that the real search for peace would begin at Geneva.

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## Arab Treatment of Events

Comment in Arab media on Secretary Kissinger's mission antedated the report today by the Syrian Arab News Agency of the possibility that Dr. Kissinger would leave the Middle East without achieving agreement on Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement, and came before the joint press conference in Jerusalem by Secretary Kissinger and Israeli Information Minister Peres in which the former declined to predict if he would achieve agreement by the time of his departure from the Middle East this weekend.

### Damascus: "Israel Creating Complications"

The Syrian Arab News Agency today circulated a report which stated:

"It was learned last night that there is a possibility that Dr. Henry Kissinger might conclude his present tour in the Middle East during the next two days without his efforts' achieving the desired success in reaching a disengagement of the Syrian and Israeli forces.

"One of the senior officials accompanying Dr. Kissinger has referred to this possibility, justifying it by the presence of many complicated problems which so far have not been solved. The U.S. official did not mention in his talk Israel's responsibility for the complications that it is raising for the U.S. Secretary of State by wasting his time through procrastination concerning matters involving the concept of the disengagement of the forces."

Damascus domestic radio briefly noted yesterday that President Asad and Secretary Kissinger and their advisers had resumed their talks at which "details of the separation of forces were taken up."

### Syrian Interview With Egyptian War Minister

The Syrian Arab News Agency reported Monday night that Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister and War Minister Ismail had told SANA in an exclusive interview in Cairo that "if Israel does not comply with and submit to the U.N. resolutions, we are prepared to deter it and teach it another lesson.... Complete coordination exists between us and the Syrian Arab forces, who are valiantly, heroically, honorably fighting on Mount Hermon and in the Golan war of attrition...."

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"When we feel that the fight has gone beyond the ability and capability of the valiant Syrian Arab army, we will not stand with folded arms, but will completely support and help our brothers in Syria and will be a single fighting front against the enemy."

Cairo: "Israel Surpasses Nazi Crimes"

An editorial in Cairo's sensationalist al-Akhbar today condemned "continued Israeli aggression on Lebanon," asserting that the attacks "surpass the crimes of the Nazis."

The attacks, the paper said, implemented Israeli Premier Meir's "statement" to the Knesset that "Israel will wage an organized war against Palestinians everywhere."

Such a policy, the paper argued, did not show Israeli "power, but rather indicated the critical predicament in which Israel finds itself since the October war destroyed the myth of the invincible army and shook the base of the Israeli security theory." It concluded that this policy would also "increase Israel's isolation in the world and increase the insistence of the Arabs on achieving their legitimate aims."

Council Proposes "Arab War Industry"

Cairo media yesterday gave considerable space to the opening there of the meeting of the Joint Arab Defense Council. They said delegations with "a large number" of foreign and defense ministers and chiefs of staff in attendance discussed establishing an Arab war industry.

Mahmud Riyad of Egypt, Secretary General of the Arab League, said in an opening speech that the meeting "has special importance because it will discuss the subjects of the Arab base for war industries and of military coordination among the Arab countries, which are the supports of the pan-Arab collective security for which the Arabs are committed to work jointly," MENA reported.

The agency report said he "stressed the inevitability and importance of Arab military coordination and said that the recurrent Israeli aggression against Lebanon and its victims has emphasized the national unity of our nation and confirmed that it is a must to provide the means of a deterrent defense in all the Arab countries."

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## Fahmi Says "Aggression Cannot Be Ignored"

Egyptian Foreign Minister Fahmi told the group, "Some of our brothers are still being exposed to Israeli aggression," and warned that "any aggression against any fraternal Arab country is an aggression against all the Arabs and cannot be ignored."

MENA reported that the head of the Palestinian delegation to the Council meetings, Faruq al-Qaddumi, said that all of the Palestinian resistance groups had "agreed to establish a national Palestinian authority over every inch of Palestinian land that is liberated."

The Damascus bureau of Cairo's Government-controlled Middle East News Agency reported Monday that in departing for Tel Aviv, Secretary Kissinger had said "some progress" on disengagement had been achieved in his talks with President Asad.

The wire service added: "It has been learned that Kissinger had recommended the setting up of a 'security barrier' between Kuneitra and the adjacent Merom Golan settlement. This means that for the first time Israel will surrender a part of its settlements."

The same dispatch said "the Arab News Agency in Beirut reports that extremist Palestinian leaders are meeting in the Lebanese capital to discuss 'plans concerning suicide fedayeen operations.'"

## Arafat Request for Support

The Government-controlled Voice of Palestine reported last night that PLO leader Arafat "received the Ambassadors of Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and Libya" in Beirut yesterday and that they had discussed "the repeated Zionist aggression against the Palestinian refugee camps and the villages" of south Lebanon.

The report said that Mr. Arafat called on the Arab states to participate in the reconstruction of the damaged camps and "to offer the necessary support that will enable the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples to stand fast in the face of repeated Zionist attacks."

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Amman: "Unity or Total Withdrawal"

Ad-Dustur of Amman said yesterday that after disengagement had been achieved on the Syria-Israel front, "we must expect all efforts to center on the Jordanian front."

The paper referred to a recent statement by Prime Minister ar-Rifai demanding total Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and from Jerusalem, and said that his statement was "an explicit call for the adoption of a policy of total withdrawal rather than one of half solution."

"Egypt, Syria and Jordan stand united before the problem of total withdrawal from occupied areas. This Arab insistence on liberation of all occupied areas should continue through the Geneva conference."

The paper said in a separate editorial that "Israeli plans" could include arson attempts on al-Aqsa mosque "to destroy Kissinger's efforts and extricate Israel from the impasse of peace." It recommended a temporary U. N. presence in Jerusalem to protect the holy places, but asserted that such a presence "should not be interpreted as a first step toward the internationalization" of the city, and that the U. N. role "should end with the implementation of Security Council Resolution 242."

Beirut: "Beginning the March Toward Peace"

Independent an-Nahar foresaw today in an editorial that, "barring new developments, Syria will take the same step that Egypt has taken" in signing a troop disengagement agreement with Israel, "thus ending 26 years of struggle and beginning a march toward peace... Other problems could arise before the Geneva conference...."

"There may be trouble about Lebanon, a dispute over representation of the Palestinians...and the continued effort to bring Nixon down and Soviet dissatisfaction if an agreement is reached."

Yesterday the paper asserted that "the Palestinian resistance cannot rely on a U. S. settlement because Washington does not recognize that the Palestinians have national rights and that the PLO is their only legitimate representative. Hence the resistance can only rely on the Soviet role and its effect on Washington."

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# "Syria Closer to Cairo Than to Moscow"

Conservative al-Hayat observed today that during the fighting on the Golan Heights the USSR had "tried, through Syria, to lead the area again toward the abyss of no-war, no-peace, but Damascus has proved, after settlement of the disengagement issue through Dr. Kissinger's efforts, that Syria is closer to Cairo than to Moscow and closer to its Arab brethren than to any foreign state, even the USSR."

Pro-Syria ash-Sharq said disengagement on the Golan Heights was designed to achieve two Kissinger goals: "Establishment of demilitarized zones between the belligerants...and the stationing between them of U.S. forces.

"By this means the Secretary intends to obviate the possibility of the Arabs launching a surprise attack on Israel."

The paper maintained yesterday that "U.S. policy in the Arab world acts with two hands aiming to dominate and control. One hand is Phantoms that spread terror, destruction and death, and the other is Kissinger, whose aim is to reflect friendship and hypocrisy."

Pro-commando al-Maharrir, pro-Soviet ash-Shaab and Communist an-Nida took an editorial line similar to that of the second-named that the Israeli attacks on Lebanon were not "retaliation for the Ma'alot incident," but rather "a strike at the Arab forces which are determined to resist the 'peace' sought by Washington and Tel Aviv and also by reactionary Arabs who see in that peace security for themselves and their privileges."

## Baghdad on Fedayeen Plans

Baghdad INA reported Monday from Cairo that the chairman of the PLO political department, in a statement "released before the meeting of the Joint Arab Defense Council, in which a PLO delegation is taking part," had stated that "other fedayeen operations similar to the Ma'alot operation will take place inside the occupied territory in future."

## Kuwait Communique

Kuwait domestic radio Monday carried the joint communique of Prime Minister al-Sabah and a visitor, Prime Minister Hasan Makki of the Yemeni Arab Republic.

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The statement declared that both "strongly denounced the continuous criminal and barbaric acts of aggression committed by the Zionist enemy against civilians in Lebanon" and "reiterated their full backing for the Palestinian resistance movement..."

## Tel Aviv: "Minor Gap Remains on Disengagement Line"

Israeli media today carried reports that President Nixon wished Secretary Kissinger to remain in the area "until his peace mission is concluded."

Pro-Government Al Hamishmar of Tel Aviv stated today, "There still remains a minor gap between Israeli and Syrian positions on the disengagement line but Jerusalem assumes that final agreement on this issue is close... After the significant progress thus far achieved, Jerusalem does not believe that Syria will cause a breakdown..." In a further comment the paper observed:

"Debates between Jerusalem and Syria through Kissinger have this technical characteristic... There is a tendency to finalize all details in order to avoid the possibility that something that was left unresolved might become an obstacle that would threaten the signing of the agreement in Geneva..."

Independent Haaretz of Tel Aviv today carried a byliner's view that "Jerusalem expects Kissinger to return from Damascus today with the final agreement on the line of disengagement... If expectations materialize... the agreement will be initialed tomorrow... and the Knesset will meet on Friday..."

## "A Captive in Kissinger's Hands"

Another byliner for the paper wrote today:

"What is shocking is that the Government has become a captive in the hands of Dr. Kissinger...morally, mentally and intellectually... and the Government's dependency on him finds expression... in the adoption of Kissinger's language and political formulas..."

## Report of Kissinger Protest on Press

The paper reported yesterday that Mr. Kissinger had "strongly protested to Mrs. Meir against publications in Israel" because their "overemphasis on the

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Kissinger Reports 'Progress' in Syria

By Marilyn Bergert
Washington Post Staff Writer

JERUSALEM, May 20—U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said tonight that there has been "good progress on several aspects of a disengagement agreement" in his talks in Syria and that he will return to Damascus tomorrow after talks here with Israeli leaders.

A senior U.S. official traveling on Kissinger's plane, said that the line for a separation of Syria and Israeli forces on the Golan Heights is for all practical purposes completely agreed upon and that the remaining differences are "manageable."

Today, Kissinger began work with Syria on the details of the subsidiary issues in an agreement and said that good progress was made on delineating the buffer zone to separate the two sides. It is to be controlled by the United Nations.

The other issues discussed today concerned the reduction of Israeli and Syrian forces, the creation of a U.N. force to supervise the agreement and a timetable for the return of

prisoners. The official said that the question of reconnaisance to be supplied by the United States, will be discussed tomorrow.

The senior official on Kissinger's plane said that the negotiations could still get "hung up" on technical issues but that both sides had shown eagerness for a settlement. By making a commitment to a line for disengagement, the official said, both Syria and Israel indicated that they had apparently overcome internal opposition, making the remaining issues soluable.

Kissinger brought to Syria both U.S. and Israeli proposals on the so-called collateral issues.

The Syrians reacted favorably to some of the proposals, a senior official said. On others, the official said, differences remain, but he called them normal negotiating differences.

Optimistic statements emanating from the Kissinger party have the effect of keeping up pressure on both sides. Kissinger is apparently telling each side that the other has made a commitment to a set-

tlement and that the opportunity should not be lost over details.

A second way Kissinger is keeping upep -p tusbseuy keeping up pressure is by putting a time limit on his own efforts. A senior U.S. official has said that Kissinger would not remain in the region beyond this weekend, no matter what the state of play of the negotiations at that point. Both sides seem to feel that his presence is essential.

Finally, Kissinger is banking on the domestic investment each side has made to a disengagement line to push through the remaining issues.

The agreement that is expected to emerge from the negotiations will spell out several points: the line of disengagement, the buffer zone with provisions for civil administration in that zone, the limitation of forces in the region and the return of prisoners of war.

As in the Egyptian-Israeli disengagement agreement, which has become the model for the Syrian-Israeli negotiation, the details giving substance to these principles are

expected to be spelled out in a separate document or documents.

These documents will accompany the agreement as written undertakings by each side. If the Egyptian-Israeli pattern is followed precisely, both sides can be expected to agree to a series of U.S. proposals. The disengagement agreement along the Suez Canal involved separate letters from President Nixon to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Golda Meir. These were signed by the two leaders to indicate their assent to the "American" proposals.

In addition, there were written explanations by the United States concerning Washington's understanding of the intentions of each side. For example, the United States told Israel that it understood that Egypt was prepared to open the Suez Canal and repopulate the cities along the waterway. But Egypt refused to state this intention itself because it felt that what it does on its territory was no ta subject for international negotiation.

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Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger has had to postpone or cancel several meetings here this week following his decision to prolong his stay in the Middle East, the State Department said yesterday.

Kissinger will not be able to take part in the meeting of the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) today, which is being attended by the foreign ministers of Britain, Iran and Pakistan and a delegation from Turkey.

He has also postponed a meeting on Thursday with Spanish Foreign Minister Pedro Cortina Mauri and on Friday with Prince Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz, deputy premier of Saudi Arabia.

Kissinger was also scheduled to see Japanese Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira today. Ohira will confer instead with Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Rush.

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# Kissinger Sees 'Good Progress' In Talks With Syrian President

*Continued From Page 1, Col. 1*

negotiating positions of the two sides.

While he was meeting with Mr. Assad, violence erupted elsewhere in the Syrian capital, at a large Palestinian refugee camp called Yarmuk, during memorial services for the three terrorists killed last week in Maalot.

As the head of the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Nayef Hawatmeh, was speaking, sub-machineguns were fired into the air. There were unconfirmed reports that one person had been killed and four wounded.

According to one witness, there were shouts of "Kissinger go home," before the shooting rang out.

## Syrians Study Proposals

In the talks with Mr. Assad this afternoon, Mr. Kissinger was accompanied by Joseph J. Sisco, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, and Alfred L. Atherton, Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs. The Americans presented the Israeli and American proposals to be covered in the agreement.

The Syrian side, which also included Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam and Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas, asked to study the plans for an hour and a half. After the recess, the Syrians gave initial responses to Mr. Kissinger, to be brought back to the Israelis for further consideration.

The American side said the

talks were making good progress but there was the possibility that a final accord might not be signed this weekend.

Last Saturday, when Syria accepted an American last-minute compromise plan, clearing the way for continuation of the negotiations, Mr. Kissinger and his aides were optimistic about the prospects.

## New Reserve Is Seen

Whether the reserve today represented normal caution or was based on some indications that the details will take longer to work out could not be ascertained.

The Americans have gained the impression from the negotiations that both Syria and Israel want an agreement and that the Syrians, in particular, are now preparing public opinion for the acceptance of an agreement.

Mr. Assad has begun bringing various members of the leadership into the talks, the Americans reported. They found the civilian officials more rigid and tougher than the military leaders.

Mr. Kissinger, who prefers to spend the night at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, flew to Syria this morning, and returned to Tel Aviv airport at about 10 P.M.

Because of the prolongation of his stay, Mr. Kissinger has shuffled his schedule in Washington, postponing planned visits by the Spanish Foreign Minister and Prince Fahd of Saudi Arabia, both of whom were due in the capital this week.

# Golan Pullback Line
Accepted by Israel

By Marilyn Berger

Washington Post Staff Writer

JERUSALEM, May 19—U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger won informal agreement today from Israel on a disengagement line with Syria on the Golan Heights.

Following Kissinger's break-
through yesterday in which he
got Syrian President Hafez
Assad's agreement to the same
line, an accord on the other is-
sues in any Syrian-Israeli pact
seems virtually assured.

Israeli Information Minister Shimon Peres said after a two-hour meeting between Israeli leaders and Kissinger to consider the American's proposals: "The line . . . is of such a nature that both sides can accept. . . I would describe the line as the key to an agreement."

Senior U.S. officials have
said there is already agree-
ment in principle on the re-
maining issues — the estab-
lishment of a buffer zone, cre-
ation of a United Nations pres-
ence, a thinning out of forces
along the line and the repatri-
ation of prisoners of war.

But filling in details could

take three or four more shut-
tles between Jerusalem and
Damascus, a senior U.S. offi-
cial said.

After the achievement yester-
day of the breakthrough
with Syria on the line, U.S. of-
ficials have begun to inject
more caution into their state-
ments about the inevitability
of an agreement. Talks could
still break down over a techni-
cality, they say. But state-
ments by both U.S. and Israeli
officials show that optimism is
general.

State Department spokes-
men Robert Anderson said the
"Israeli side expressed a fa-
vorable attitude to the U.S.
proposal on the line." Final
formal approval of the line is
widely expected to come to-
morrow.

Anderson said Kissinger
was given detailed Israeli pro-
posals on the remaining issues
of a possible disengagement
agreement to take back to Da-
mascus Monday. Kissinger is
said to be prepared to shuttle
between the two capitals as of-

See KISSINGER, A10, Col. 1

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 19—
Last German officials handed
gifts of blankets, medical
supplies, clothing and radios
worth $20,000 for African lib-
eration movements here today.
An official of the Organisation
of African Unity's liberation
committee acceted the dona-
tion.

## Thirty Tricks

Unemployed New Englander”
Richardson received an hon-
orary degree from the univer-
sity in the course of a cheer-
ul hour-long ceremony in the
McDonough Gymnasium
which went off without a
itch, despite earlier promises
to some students to demon-
strate against the April dis-
missal of the university’s vice
resident, the Rev. Edmund
F. Ryan.

Richardson's commence-
ment address was given a
standing ovation by the new
graduating class and the crowd
as a whole. After the ceremony,
many like a movie star, Rich-
ardso went through the ordeal
of autographing commence-
ment programs and accepting
countless emotional congratula-
tions on his speech from
graduates and their families
like.

achieving a disengagement
agreement between Israel and
Syria.

During the morning, the
President conferred with Ron-
ald L. Ziegler, his press secre-
tary and aide, and reviewed
domestic legislation pending
on Capitol Hill.

On Monday, he is scheduled
to make a radio address on na-
tional health insurance
shortly after noon. The Presi-
dent will urge of quick pas-
sage of his plan—one of a
number currently under con-
sideration by Congress.

After working on the
speech, the President took a
short boat ride on sunny Bis-
cayne Bay. With him on his
friend C. G. (Bebe) Rebozo's
boat, the Coco Lobo III, were
Mrs. Nixon; his daughter, Tri-
cia Cox; another friend, indus-
trialist Robert Abplanalp, and
Rebozo.

The president came here
Thursday afternocn for a long
weekend of rest. He will stay
at least through Monday.

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THE KISSINGERS TAKE A STROLL
ON THEIR RECENT HONEYMOON IN ACAPULCO

Q. How much taller is Mrs. Kissinger than Mr. Kissinger, and how tall is he?—Nancy Madden, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.

A. Kissinger is 5 feet 8½. Mrs. Kissinger tops him by a good 3 inches.

Syria and Israel
Near Accord,
Kissinger Says

JERUSALEM, May 18 — Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said tonight that Syria and Israel are on the threshold of an agreement to separate their forces on the Golan Heights. An accord seemed virtually assured as U.S. officials said that Syria had already given its tentative approval.

Following what Kissinger called "extensive and very cordial talks" with Syrian President Hafez Assad today, the Secretary of State announced that "significant progress has been made and the prospects for an agreement have been advanced."

Accordingly Kissinger said he has agreed to stay in the area a few more days "to assist the parties in reaching an agreement on the disengagement of forces."

It is understood that the American proposals now accepted by the Syrians still require approval by the Israeli Cabinet. But a senior Israeli official had said yesterday that he believes that if Assad accepts the proposals, indicating a real desire for settlement, Israeli Cabinet approval would be virtually assured. A regular weekly Cabinet meeting is scheduled for Sunday morning.

Kissinger's understated remarks at the Damascus airport seemed to end a diplomatic cliffhanger. Assad has assented to proposals the secretary had made to him. If the Syrian leader had not done so, Kissinger was ready to suspend the negotiations for a few weeks, hoping that the progress thus far achieved would be

preserved and that the tenuous military situation in the region would hold.

But a senior American official said that Assad had expressed concern that the momentum would be lost if the talks were interrupted.

Kissinger put forward proposals of his own which were more acceptable than anything previously suggested by either side to the other. A senior American official on the Kissinger plane said that both Syria and Israel had made significant moves in the last 48 hours and that they may be enough for an agreement.

The senior official cautioned that there is still a margin for failure but he declared himself very optimistic and said the two sides are "very close" to agreement on a disengagement line on a map.

Once that line is accepted by both sides, the senior official said, the other issues would fall into place. These include the establishment of a buffer zone, the creation of a United Nations presence to supervise the agreement and a thinning out of Syrian and Israeli forces in designated regions along the line to reduce the danger of resumed warfare.

The positive remarks by senior American officials also appear designed to maintain pressure on both sides to continue to be conciliatory on the remaining points at issue.

The disengagement talks had seemed to reach a stalemate earlier this week. Then a serious blow was struck when three Arab terrorists infiltrated an Israeli

See KISSINGER, A12, Col. 1

For Wallace Said
Less Than Thought

By B.J. Richey

Special to The Washington Post

MONTGOMERY, Ala.— Gov. George C. Wallace's black support in his land- slide victory for a third term probably will not be as large as first reports of the election indicated.

Wallace crushed four op- ponents in the May 7 Demo- cratic primary by winning two-thirds of the 750,000 votes cast and carrying all but one of the state's 67 counties. Even though the counties won by Wallace in- cluded the state's 10 pre- dominantly black ones, a survey of black leaders shows most believe Wallace gained no more than 10 per cent of the black votes, not the 20 to 25 per cent esti- mated at first.

These black leaders dis- count the possibility that a drastic shift in black atti- tude toward Wallace has oc- curred.

But his increased tally among blacks probably rep- resents a continued soften- ing of racial attitudes.

Wallace has stopped his racist rhetoric and some black leaders have decided to vote for him in order to say later, "Okay, we helped you. Now help us."

Besides, many blacks felt there was no alternative. His closest opponent, Eu- gene McLain of Huntsville, was too weak a candidate to gain much black confidence.

Estimates are that just over half of the approxi- mately 280,000 black voters cast ballots in the primary; many probably did not vote at all in the governor's race.

Joe Reed, chairman of the Alabama Democratic Con- ference, the black caucus of

at Druid High School Mc- Lain received 745 votes to Wallace's 62.

Alvin Holmes, one of 13 blacks elected to the state legislature in last week's voting, said Wallace re- ceived from 5 to 6 per cent of the black vote in this west Montgomery district, which is 75 per cent black.

W. C. Patton, of Birming- ham, former head of the Al- abama NAACP, said he doesn't believe Wallace re- ceived even that much.

"Unless someone cites me figures from predominantly black boxes that say other- wise, I will not believe Wal- lace got a significant black vote.

"In fact, I would bet my neck it won't run 5 per- cent statewide. believe it will be closer to 1.5 to 2 per cent," said Patton, who is now national director of voter education for the NAACP. In 1970, Wallace re- ceived about 1 per cent in his gubernatorial race.

Two black office holders who openly supported Wal- lace's re-election were Tusk- egee Mayor Johnny Ford and Lowndes County Sher- iff John Hulett.

Both denied they had been promised anything by Wallace in return for that support.

"I simply thought Wallace was the most qualified can- didate," Ford said.

He said that with Wal- lace's national standing, Alab-ama will share in more and more of the nation's wealth.

Ford said he supported the re-election of Richard Nixon for the same prag-

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By Austin Scott

Washington Post Staff Writer

The newest attempt to make socialism an effective force in American public policy drew about 100 people to an all-day forum on major public issues yesterday.

Those attending were mostly Democrats, but in con- trast to a number of recent Democratic gatherings, the is- sue of impeachment was hardly mentioned.

Instead, speakers turned again and again to the idea that the nation will not be able to solve the funda- mental problems of inflation, energy, and social injustice without a "structural trans- formation."

Syria, Israel Near Accord
On Golan, Says Kissinger

KISSINGER, From A1

school at Maalot in an inci-
dent that left 25 dead. Israeli
reprisal raids against guerrilla
camps in Lebanon seemed to
worsen the prospects for any
agreement.

So Kissinger's announce-
ment today, as Israeli planes
were making more sorties over
Lebanon appeared all the
more as a victory against enor-
mous odds.

Kissinger met tonight with
Israeli officials upon his re-
turn from Syria. Further meet-
ings will be held Sunday, and
the senior U.S. official said an
accord could be completed in
three or four days. Kissinger
is expected to return to Da-
marcus Monday.

The agreement is expected
to be signed in Geneva, prob-
ably by the military commis-
sions that have been set up at
the new dormant conference
on the Middle East.

Kissinger now begins his
fourth week of this phase of
the Middle East peace talks,
his longest diplomatic mission
to date. A senior official con-
firmed today that President
Nixon sent Kissinger a mes-
sage on Wednesday again tell-
ing him to remain in the re-
gion as long as necessary to
get an agreement.

The Nixon administration
is eager for a foreign policy
success. a U.S. presidential
visit to the Middle East largely
depends on the outcome of
these talks.

This has also been Kissin-
ger's most elaborate diploma-
tic mission to date. He was
careful to mobilize moderate
Arab support for a Syrian-
Israeli disengagement agree-
ment in meetings with Egypt-
ian President Anwar Sadat,

Algerian President Houari
Boumedine and Saudia Ara-
bian King Faisal.

Beyond the immediate issue
of a disengagement in Syria,
these meetings underscored
U.S. interests in the Middle
East and may have helped to
assure the continued supply of
petroleum from the region.

Kissinger also met twice
with Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei A. Gromyko to win
Moscow's acquiescence to a
disengagement agreement.

Officials would give no de-
tails on the disengagement
line, the critical issue in these
talks. But it is believed that
the line would require Israel
to permit some territory it has
settled and cultivated to come
under U. N. supervision. This
land—less than two square
miles of potato fields and ap-
ple orchards — makes up part
of a cooperative farm settle-
ment on land occupied in the
June 1967 war.

What is known about the
agreement so far is that:

* Israel will return to Syria all the territory it captured; during the October 1973 war, approximately 300 square miles.

* Israel will also return the entire town of Kuneitra, a former Syrian district capital that served as an army base. It was taken in 1967 and has become a political symbol in Syria of the Israeli occupation.

* Israel will return some additional areas taken in 1967.

It is believed that Israel will
maintain control over the sin-
gle position it has held on Mt.
Hermon since 1967 as well as
three hills in the region of Ku-
neitra, which provide Israel
with strategic command of
two main roads to Damascus

and over the three Israeli set-
tlements in the area.

At the start of the negotia-
tions, Israeli said it was pre-
pared to cede only the lands it
captured in the 1973 war.

It is also understood that
the agreement would involve
the creation of a UN peace-
keeping force, stronger than
the observer team originally
proposed by Syria.

A buffer zone will be cre-
ated. Civil administrations
will be established inside it.
This differs from the pattern
set by the disengagement of
Israeli and Egyptian forces
along the Suez Canal because
the Golan Heights, unlike the
Sinai Desert, is populated
area.

The United States is ex-
pected to play a role similar to
the one it undertook in the
Egyptian-Israeli agreement by
providing memoranda on what
it understands to be the un-
dertakings of each side. It is
not known whether the United
States has agreed to provide
the guarantees that Syria has
been seeking to assure further
Israeli withdrawals offer an
initial disengagement.

The United States is ex-
pected ot patrol the with-
drawal zone with its own
planes and reconnaissance sat-
elites, as it does on the Egyp-
tian front.

Both sides — in the tradi-
tion of the Middle East have
clearly been hard bargainers,
almost appearing to play a
game of diplomatic “chicken”
to see which would give in
first. This is why proposals
with a U.S. label became use-
ful, although a senior official
on the Kissinger plane said it
was not possible to put them
forward until the two sides
were already very close to-
gether.

Kissinger's Peace Mission
Approaches Decisive Point

NYTimes 5-18-74

By BERNARD GWERTZMAN

Special to The New York Times

JERUSALEM, May 17 — Secretary of State Kissinger, frustrated by the inability of Syria and Israel to overcome the final obstacles to a troop-separation agreement on the

Golan Heights, proposed his own ideas to Israel today as the current round of negotiations approached a decisive point.

American officials said tonight that after intensive discussions in the last 24 hours with Syrian leaders in Damascus and with Israeli officials here, Mr. Kissinger now believes that by tomorrow night —after one more trip between Damascus and Tel Aviv — he will know whether a complete disengagement agreement can be worked out before he returns to Washington.

This was supported by Foreign Minister Abba Eban of Israel, who said on television tonight that Mr. Kissinger had been given a new Israeli offer, as the result of discussions today, and that the time was ripe for a "yes" or a "no" decision on whether an accord was at hand.

[At the United Nations, Lebanon protested Israeli air attacks on her territory, but after being pressed by the United States and other nations not to endanger Mr. Kissinger's peace efforts, she did not call for a Security Council meeting on her protest. Page 13.]

If Mr. Kissinger decides that after his talks tomorrow, an

Continued on Page 12, Column 3

Kissinger Offers Proposals

KISSINGER, From A1

ical concerns of both coun-
tries. Informed sources said
Kissinger was making pro-
posals on the essential issue
of the cease-fire line as well
as on collateral matters.

When he goes to Damas-
cus, for example, it is be-
lieved Kissinger will probe
Syrian willingness to make
concessions of importance
to Israle if Israel were to
yield more territory than
it had hitherto been willing
to give. In all likelihood he
would be making sugges-
tions that had not yet re-
ceived Israeli Cabinet ap-
proval, informed officials
said, but which he believed
could get Cabinet endorse-
ment if Syria made conces-
sions.

Several Israeli newspa-
pers reported today that
earlier this week Kissinger
had asked Israel to cede
some of the cultivated terri-
tory that now makes up part
of Kibbutz Merom Golan,
not far from the town of Ku-
neitra. This proposal was ve-
toed by the Cabinet despite
the willingness of Israeli
Prime Minister Golda Meir,

Deputy Prime Minister
Yigal Allon and Foreign
Minister Abba Eban to give
up some of this land to the
U.N. buffer zone that would
be established in a disen-
gagement agreement.

Interviews with informed
officials indicate that Kis-
singer will propose to the
Syrians that part of this
land could be ceded pro-
vided there were trade-offs
from Damascus. Highly in-
formed sources said the Is-
raeli leadership was confi-
dent that it could draw the
Cabinet along with it to ap-
prove such a move provided
Kissinger can convince them
that Syra is serious about a
settlement.

Foreign Minister Eban
said tonight in an interview
on Israeli television that the
government today gave Kis-
singer ideas that he will also
be taking to Syria. "We of
course hope that Syria will
accept it," he said. But he
added that the atomosphere
had improved even if there
is no agreement immedi-
ately.

He said: "There is a possi-
bility that an agreement
might come into shape. The

sides will have to decide. It
is close to the moment of
necessity to say yes or no."

The outcome of the talks
in Damascus is so unpredict-
able that the member of the
party traveling with the sec-
retary are being told to take
their suitcases with them
from the King David Hotel,
which has become some-
thing of a base camp for the
expedition.

Hotel rooms are still go-
ing to be held, however, in
case the talks merit a return
to Israel and lengthy talks
with Israeli leaders. The Is-
raeli Cabinet holds a regu-
lar meeting Sunday and can
be expected to consider any
report Kissinger might
bring.

If Kissinger cannot get an
agreement now he is ex-
pected to seek statements
from each side concerning
the issues that have been
solved and the problems
that remain. Such a state-
ment would presumably
commit each side to pick up
where it left off when talks
resume.

Kissinger asked for taps,
Nixon reportedly told Dean

Washington (KNI)—President Nixon divulged in February, 1973, that Henry A. Kissinger, the Secretary of State, asked that wiretaps be placed on the telephone lines of administration officials, according to a White House tape recording obtained by the House Judiciary Committee.

Dr. Kissinger, who at the time was White House national security adviser, denied under oath that he had done so in testimony last fall before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The portion of the tape recording in which Mr. Nixon makes the assertion was deleted from White House transcripts the President made public April 30. But the Judici-

ary Committee has the entire tape and heard it Thursday night.

Discussing Dr. Kissinger's role in the controversial wiretapping, Mr. Nixon told John W. Dean 3d, then his counsel, according to the recording:

"I know that he asked that it be done. And I assumed that it was."

The President went on to refer specifically to wiretaps on "Lake and Halperin"—An-

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thony Lake and Morton Halperin, both National Security Council staff members in the early days of the Nixon administration.

The conversation occurred February 28, 1973, just a few days after *Time* magazine had broken a story asserting that a number of newsmen and administration officials had been wiretapped.

The administration at first vehemently denied the taps, but later admitted that a total of 17 taps had been placed in 1969 through 1971—13 on administration officials and 4 on newsmen—all seeking to trace the source of leaks to the press.

The question of Dr. Kissinger's TAPES, A6, Col. 1

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U.S. Ideas on Golan Heights

KISSINGER, from A1

and London, arriving in Wash-
ington tomorrow night.

A senior U.S. official had
said Dr. Kissinger would be
unable to work out a full disen-
gagement agreement between
Israel and Syria this weekend.
He apparently planned to step
away from the area for sev-
eral weeks, leaving aides be-
hind to keep negotiations
going.

A spokesman, Robert Ander-
son, declined to specify the
proposals Dr. Kissinger had
made to the Israeli team. All
he would say was that "there
were some American ideas dis-
cussed on the question of dis-
engagement between Syria and
Israeli forces."

Until now, Dr. Kissinger's
role was represented as that of
a mediator, trying to find com-
mon ground between Syrian
and Israeli positions. He was
known to be advising each side

what the other would not ac-
cept, but otherwise leaving it
to the parties to take the initia-
tive.

The senior official said Dr.
Kissinger was now "a little
freer" with his own ideas since
the gap has narrowed consid-
erably.

The principal sticking point
remains where to draw the
lines for separation between
the Syrian and Israeli armies
on the Golan plateau.

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Kissinger reportedly asked for taps

TAPES, from Al

ger's possible role in establishing the taps became a key issue last September in his Senate confirmation hearings after he had been appointed Secretary of State.

Kissinger description

In an executive session before the committee September 17, the text of which was made public in October, Dr. Kissinger described his role:

"First, I never recommended the practice of wiretapping. I was aware of it, and I went along with it to the extent of supplying the names of the people who had had access to the sensitive documents in question.

"Despite some newspaper reports, I never recommended it, urged it or took it anywhere.

"Indeed, the thought that I

might be in a position to do this in the fourth month of a new administration which I joined as an outsider is in itself inconceivable."

Dr. Kissinger's reference to "the fourth month" was a reference to the fact that the wiretapping program began just a few months after Mr. Nixon took office in 1969.

It started in mid-1969 and was terminated in February, 1971, the administration eventually acknowledged.

In the February 28, 1973, conversation Dean and Mr. Nixon were discussing the general subject of bugging newsmen and Dean mentioned the *Time* magazine story which, he told Mr. Nixon, "we are stonewalling totally here."

"Oh, absolutely," the President said.

"Stonewalling" was a term

used frequently in the White House to describe a policy of flatly denying stories about Watergate.

At this point in the transcript made public by Mr. Nixon April 30 a parenthetic note appears: "Material not related to presidential action deleted."

The text

The text of the deleted matter, obtained by the Judiciary Committee:

President: "Sure, and the ... Henry's staff ...—he insisted (unintelligible) after working with McGovern—uh, uh work Muskie. Incidentally didn't Muskie do anything bad on there?

"Henry [unintelligible] at least I know not because—I know that I know that he asked that it be done. And I

assumed that it was. Lake and Halperin. They're both bad. But the taps were too. They never helped us. Just gobs and gobs of material: gossip and bullshitting—the tapping was very, very unproductive thing. I've always known that. At least, I've never, it's never been useful in any operation I've ever conducted."

McGovern and Muskie are Senators George McGovern and Edmund S. Muskie, contenders for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination.

Several other paragraphs about other matters were deleted in the White House transcripts before the conversation resumed.

By the time of Dr. Kissinger's confirmation hearings in September the administration had fully acknowledged the secret wiretap program which it had denied strongly at first.

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Continued From Page 1, Col. 8

of Lebanon would be made un-
inhabitable if Lebanon did not
repress Palestinian guerrilla
forces here.

Israel says that the three
Palistinian guerrillas who car-
ried out the attack on the
school in Maalot, where the stu-
dents were killed yesterday,
entered the northern Israeli
town from Lebanon.

Denial by Lebanese

This is denied by Lebanese
officials and by the Palistinian
group that claimed responsibil-
ity for the attack, the Popular
Democratic Front for the Lib-
eration of Palestine.

They said that the three guer-
rillas were operating within
Israel, where they were under-
ground members of the organ-
ization, which is led by Nayef
Hawatmeh, whose headquarters
are Beirut.

Mr. Hawatmeh said at a news
conference in Beirut today that
the main purpose of the Maalot
operation was to disrupt the
peace-making mission of Secre-
tary of State Kissinger, who
has been trying to bring about
a military disengagement be-
tween Israel and Syria.

At Ein al Helweh, site of the
main Israeli attack, there were
many Palestinian guerrillas car-

rying weapons. One, who
seemed to be in charge of evac-
uation of the buildings, was
called Salah. He identified him-
self as the area leader of Al
Fatah, the major Palestinian
guerrilla organization.

He told several American
journalist that they would not
be welcomed by the refugees at
the camp, adjoining the apart-
ment flats.

"Tell your Government that Phantoms are very good against innocent civilians," the guerrilla leader said. He added: "We hate the devil, Israelis and Americans, but today we hate the American most."

Position Explained

"What we don't understand is why in America and Europe our case is not clear. Our land is occupied and when we fight to get our homes back we are called terrorists. But when the Israeli bomb civilians they are heroes to you."

The tall, blue-eyed guerrilla,
who had a pistol at his hip but
wore civilian dress, reflected an
anger that seemed to go be-
yond the shock of the raid.

"Inside the camp, they hit a
playground center for children
who go there after school and
the families are still digging
out bodies," he said.

The guerrilla leader said he
had experienced Israeli air at-

tacks in Jordan, where the Pal-
estinian fighters were active
before King Hussein's army
drove them out in 1970 and
1971.

"The bombs they used today
are the biggest yet," he said.

Settlement Questioned

Speaking of a possible peace
agreement between the Arabs
and Israel, the Guerrilla said he
opposed any settlement that
would not allow Palestinians to
recover their homes.

"Even if all the Arab Govern-
ments sign a peace with Israel,
we will have to go on fighting
until we get back what is
ours," he said.

As families picked through
apartment ruins looking for be-
longings, which they carried
away by the armful, many were
without shelter tonight.

At the Saida regional hospi-
tal, an elderly doctor in a blood-
stained smock said in the emer-
gency room that 50 wounded
persons had been treated, and
that 11 had died. An ambu-
lance pulled in carrying casu-
alties from Nabatieh, one was
an old woman with a flowered
headcloth who was wounded
in the leg. Another was a man
in a green fatigue uniform, such
as the guerrillas wear, who
was unconscious and suffering
an abdominal wound.

SECRETARY HOLDS
DAMASCUS TALKS

NYTimes
5-17-74

Long Conference With Assad
Seeks to Narrow Gap on
Syrian-Israeli Pact

By United Press International

DAMASCUS, Syria, Friday, May 17—Secretary of State Kissinger conferred for seven and a half hours with President Hafez al-Assad of Syria last night as the Middle East peace mission neared its point of decision.

Mr. Kissinger's talks with Mr. Assad began at 6 P.M. and lasted until 1:30 A.M. The Secretary then drove directly to the airport for the return to Israel.

> [In Jerusalem, the Israeli radio said that Premier Golda Meir's Government had suggested to Mr. Kissinger a 10-day pause in his mission to let Israel and Syria take stock and prove their peaceful intentions. The report was immediately denied by a spokesman of the Israeli Foreign Ministry.]

Last Stop in Syria

Mr. Kissinger's visit to Syria was expected to be the last on his current mission. Neither said gave any indication that Wednesday's incident at Maalot had changed the negotiating positions.

The Secretary of State arrived in Damascus from Israel at 4:25 P.M. His talks with the Syrian President started 90 minutes later.

Mr. Kissinger's plane circled Damascus Airport several times before it landed. No official explanation was given and it was not known whether the maneuver was related to Israeli air strikes in Lebanon.

American officials gave no indications what, if any, Israeli concessions Mr. Kissinger had

Continued on Page 21, Column 1

KISSINGER PUSHES
HIS PEACE EFFORT

Continued From Page 1, Col. 7
brought to Syria.

Before leaving Israel, he conferred for three hours with the Israeli negotiating team. The talks followed a meeting of the Israeli Cabinet that kept Mr. Kissinger in Israel 90 minutes longer than expected.

By the time he returns to Israel, he is expected to know whether he can get agreement or must break off his diplomatic mission, now in its 19th day, and return later.

A high official traveling with Mr. Kissinger said the Secretary must be back in Washington at the latest by Sunday night.

The central issue in the negotiations remained the location of a new cease-fire line in the Golan Heights. American officials said the two sides were only a short distance apart, but might not be able to bridge the gap this time.

Unless there is a breakthrough, Mr. Kissinger is not expected to come back to Damascus on his current tour. He hopes he has made enough progress to return in several weeks to complete a military disengagement accord between Israel and Syria.

On his way home, he is expected to stop in Egypt to report on progress to President Anwar el-Sadat.

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in downtown Man-
a commuter range,
commuter lines and
arts to and from the
sections only minutes

fireplaces, air con-
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ON WITHDRAWALS

5-16-74 NYTimes

Efforts for a Compromise
in This Round of Talks
Are Called Impaired

Special to The New York Times

JERUSALEM, May 15—The terrorist attack at Maalot today forced Secretary of State Kissinger to suspend his Middle East Peace efforts for one day.

The attack, which occupied the Israeli Cabinet through the day, was denounced by Mr. Kissinger as "this mindless and irrational action." The Secretary made it clear to his aides that he was determined not to let it undermine the progress made so far in this current Middle East negotiating trip.

But the tragic events at Maalot were viewed by both Israeli and American officials as probably having the effect of impairing his efforts to extract any last-minute compromises from either Israel or Syria on disengagement on the Syrian front before his scheduled return to Washington over the weekend.

Mr. Kissinger had been slated to meet with Israeli officials, led by Premier Golda Meir, this morning after an Israeli Cabinet meeting scheduled to discuss Israel's final ideas on disengagement to be conveyed by Mr. Kissinger to Syrian officials.

But this morning, when the dimensions of the terrorist attack became known, Mr. Kissinger put off his plans to leave Israel for Syria, preferring to wait until Mrs. Meir and other Israeli officials could deal with the disengagement problems.

Israeli officials, who spoke from time to time with Mr.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, MAY 16,

SYRIA PESSIMISTIC
ON GOLAN ACCORD

Renews Call for Parley
of Arab Chiefs of State
to Review Situation

By JUAN de ONIS

Special to The New York Times

DAMASCUS, Syria, May 15
— The Palestinian attack on
the Israeli school deepened
the pessimism today among
Syrian officials involved in
negotiations with Secretary of
State Kissinger.

Throughout the Middle East,
there was a sense of crisis in
Mr.Kissinger's mission to bring
about a separation of Syrian
and Israeli troops on the Golan
Heights. Syria renewed her
call for an urgent Arab con-
ference of chiefs of state to
review the situation.

B Altman & Co

'Let Henry Do It'

To the Editor:

I refer to James Reston's May 22 column "Where Are You Now Henry?" which appeals to Mr. Kissinger to come back to Washington "to deal with the world as Secretary of State."

Our excellent Mr. Kissinger is abroad in the interests of peace in the Middle East, a matter of deep concern to everybody. If Mr. Kissinger's absence abroad in the interest of peace is permitted to be made an excuse for poor morale in the State Department, then we should devise some father figure to take the Secretary's place to soothe those afflicted sufficiently so that they can get on with the work they were hired to do.

May I say, in defense of Mr. Kissinger's several absences from Washington, that historically there has been a lamentable decline in the importance of ambassadors "extraordinary and plenipotentiary"; that this slide began when the first telegram was put on the desk of British Prime Minister Canning in 1827. Mr. Canning correctly prognosticated that the event marked the end of old-fashioned diplomacy. Until Mr. Canning received his famous telegram, an Ambassador sent abroad by the British sovereign, for instance, was truly extraordinary and plenipotentiary because there would be no contact with London for several months at a time and he was entrusted with serious business and could not go to a telegraph office, let alone a telephone, to ask for additional instructions if the heathen he was dealing with became obstreperous.

The fantastic growth and improvement in voice communications, and in the last 25 years the development of supersonic aircraft, meant that heads of state and foreign ministers could personally meet each other with little inconvenience and little waste of time, and bad news was promptly made known along with good news, of course, and everyone concerned could cluck in satisfaction or make appropriate sounds of anguish.

Mr. Dulles accelerated the movement towards personal diplomacy for reasons which are well known and diplomacy today isn't what it used to be, to which a cynic might reply, "No, and it never was!"

I hope Mr. Kissinger will continue to use his considerable talents in the interest of peace no matter where. I believe the Department of State is in good hands; and I have the feeling that there has lately been an improvement in morale which admittedly had suffered a steady decline long before Mr. Kissinger became Secretary, in fact, ever since Presidents began to take a personal interest in foreign affairs. We remember Wilson's Colonel House, Roosevelt's Harry Hopkins, and in very recent times the build-up of a foreign affairs staff in the White House that has acted as a super Department of State to the dismay, embarrassment and even humiliation of some Secretaries of State.

"Let Henry do it" abroad, and let the State Department in Washington back-stop him to the fullest.

WILLIAM H. CHRISTENSEN
Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.

May 22, 1974

The writer is a former Foreign Service officer.

spent much of his time in prison reading and copying quotations from books by and about Freud, Reich, Nietzsche, Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Voltaire, Pascal, Keats, Aquinas, Sartre and others. How reconcile this with his wild life? Perhaps the psychiatrist in the Kings County Hospital prison ward who first diagnosed him as a paranoid schizophrenic had the answer.

Kissinger Told to Leave U.S.

Department spokes-
the Department had
ction concerning Mr.
Edward Kavazan-
minal investigator
migration and Natu-
Service here, con-
t the bureau had
Girodias to leave
States by mid-June.
Nous Complaint

at his office, Mr.
said he had called
in after an anony-
aint about the book
here and had dis-
the publisher had
mission to remain
ntry only through
know what he's

crying about; he's an illegal
alien and we could have ar-
rested him," Mr. Kavazanjian
said. "He should send us an
autographed copy."

But Mr. Girodias, who has
published such sexually explicit
works as Henry Miller's "Tropic
of Cancer," protested in the
letter he wrote the German-
born Dr. Kissinger that "the
political intolerance from which
you yourself fled some 30 years
before, Mr. Secretary, is of the
same essence as the intellectual
intolerance to which I have
been subjected. Discrimination
against books is the same thing
as discrimination against
people."

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