Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Through the week, Iranians prepared for a long siege. Automobile drivers lined up for miles at Tehran's gas stations to fill their tanks. Other queues formed at bank tellers' windows, while housewives thronged to the city's shops for food. At 6 p.m. Thursday, as the curfew hour approached, the capital's bustling bazaar lowered its shutters...
...agreement." Later would appear to be a stronger bet. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance announced last week that the slow-moving talks would resume at an unspecified date. But the issue of linkage-that is, relating Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula to political changes for the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip-remains a major stumbling block...
What a way for friends to talk about each other. Cairo radio accuses the region's oil potentates of amassing wealth in secret foreign bank accounts and ignoring the needs of their own people. An Egyptian editor suggests aloud that Saudi Arabia has "turned to the Soviets to become a member of the Warsaw Pact," adding: "Have the Russians given
...support will depend, in no small part, on the degree to which Sadat succeeds in linking the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty with an overall settlement. For that reason Sadat is pressing the Israelis to agree in the treaty to a specific timetable for negotiating the future of the West Bank and Gaza...
TIME has obtained the complete text of the U.S. answers to Hussein's questions. In many cases, both are perfunctory and nonprovocative. The King's first question, for example, was whether the U.S. intended to be a full partner in future negotiations on the West Bank, Gaza "and the Palestinian question in general." Answer: "Yes, the U.S. will be a full partner in all the Arab-Israeli peace negotiations [and] will use its full influence to see that the negotiations are brought to a successful conclusion...