He said " Mr . Rostow describes as a startling new proposition a point that he discerns in Secretary Baker's speech to AIPAC, namely, that Resolution 242 requires Israel to withdraw to the armistice demarcation lines as they stood in 1967 . . . . That was not a startling new proposition but the intent and the language of 242 which specified, inter alia, the application of the following principle : Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict . The word territories was deliberately not preceded by the or all the, thus leaving open the possibility of border rectifications.
