President Clinton accused Syrian President Hafez Assad of stonewalling on terms for peace with Israel. If Assad disagrees with Israel’s “quite significant” proposal for returning the Golan Heights in exchange for peace, “then there should be some other proposal, I think, coming from the Syrians,” Clinton said.
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