Word: aqaba
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...service company in which her father holds an interest; a year ago she landed a position as designer and decorator for Alia,* the Royal Jordanian Airlines. Lisa first met the King three months ago,.when she and her visiting father were royal house guests at the winter palace in Aqaba. The twosome quickly discovered a common interest in sailing, skiing and driving fast cars, and Hussein was smitten...
Israeli diplomats have insisted on maintaining a military presence at Sharm el Sheikh as a way of guaranteeing that ships will have unhindered access through the Gulf of Aqaba to the port of Eilat. Egypt would lease to Israel Sharm el Sheikh and an access road along the western shore of the Gulf of Aqaba for a stated period-perhaps 20 years. An alternative is to place a U.N. force at Sharm el Sheikh and give Israel inspection rights. Most experts agree that Israel's stated strategic concern about the Aqaba Gulf is irrelevant. Whether cargoes get through...
Bounded by the Mediterranean and Red seas and the gulfs of Aqaba and Suez, the Sinai peninsula is a generally desolate stretch of sand dunes and granite mountains that is twice the size of Maryland. The desert is more hospitable to scorpions and camels than to men. Apart from Bedouins who wander the dunes and camp in the scattered oases, and soldiers who cautiously patrol old battlefields, Sinai's inhabitants hug the coastlines. Yet for all the peninsula's vast emptiness and apparent lack of natural wealth, Israel appears to be determined to hold on to a third...
...Geneva conference "without preconditions," and would sign a peace agreement with Israel. Sadat's plan also calls for total Israeli withdrawal from territory occupied since 1967, as well as United Nations peace-keeping forces to patrol the frontiers and guarantee free movement of ships in the Aqaba Gulf...
...also give Egypt a narrow corridor of land along the gulf running south to Abu Rudeis. Israel is building a road around the oilfields so that it can supply its forces further south at El Tur and at Sharm el Sheikh, which controls the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba. But in a unique and symbolically important part of the agreement, Israel will share parts of the existing road inside the Egyptian corridor until its own road is completed. In any event, Israeli forces will virtually surround the oilfield, which will be a material hostage to Egypt's good...