Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger was expected back here late this evening to resume his talks with Israel’s negotiators on the myriad details of a Golan disengagement. He was expected to bring with him Syrian President Hafez Assad’s final–though not yet formal–approval of the line of separation as proposed by the U.S. and in effect accepted–with minor qualifications–by both Israel and Syria this weekend.
Neither side is expected to formally announce its acceptance of the line until all other aspects of the disengagement are satisfactorily settled, according to observers. Kissinger is contemplating three more shuttles, and hopes to have the accord sewn up by his birthday–at the end of the week. (He will be 51.)
Observers here are now seriously raising the possibility of direct talks, at a military level, at Geneva next week to complete various details of an agreement before a final signing under the joint aegis of Kissinger and the Soviet military chief, Vladimir Vinogradoff.
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