The agreement to disengage forces in the Golan Heights had been an achievement of substational proportions, and my visit was an opportunity to encourage, support, and nurture the new Syrian-American relationship that Kissinger had begun.

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A short time afterward at the opera Gerald dragged him into a parterre to say something amiable to one of the amiable débutante Craig girls—and Selwyn found himself again facing Alixe.

A. Fink-Nottle: But it's absolute balderdash, Bertie. I mean, listen to this: Sure and begorrah, I don't know what's after being the matter with you, Michael. I mean, what on earth is this what's after being stuff mean? B.W. Wooster: My dear old Gussie, that is how people think Irish people talk.