ABSTRACT
The Arabs insisted that the resolution called for full Israeli withdrawal back to the lines of before the June war; they made the passage on “the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war” their banner. The bilateral talks, in which the serious business would be done, would address only a settlement between Egypt and Israel. The four-power talks, which both the Americans and the Soviets regarded as essentially for show, would deal with all aspects of the conflict. Out of Sisco’s talks with Gromyko and Deputy Foreign Minister Vinogradov did come a draft that combined the US and Soviet papers, but there were large gaps between the positions of the two sides. The Soviets too continued to misrepresent the American position, though in a wholly different way. In their propaganda directed at the Arab world, they blamed the United States for the impasse in the negotiations, and they claimed that the Americans were backing Israel’s refusal to withdraw.
