Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...devout Orthodox Jewish families, huddled in mobile homes near the archaeological ruins of biblical Shiloh (pronounced Shelow), are certain the Lord is pleased that his people have reestablished a settlement on the site. Almost no one else is. Shiloh is the newest of four illegal settlements in the West Bank created and populated by Gush Emunim (Group of the Faithful), a nationalistic religious group that believes in the God-given right of Israelis to inhabit ancient Judea and Samaria. Washington, most Arabs and even many Israelis regard the settlements - and the Begin government's refusal to uproot them...
Stymied for nearly two years in their attempts to prospect for the huge quantities of oil and gas believed to lie under the Atlantic, U.S. oil companies suffered yet another setback last week. A federal court in Boston stopped the sale of oil leases on Georges Bank, a rich fishing ground 100 miles southeast of Nantucket. It thus put off for months, and possibly years, the day when drilling could begin...
...delayed by environmental worries. Fishermen have long sought assurances that the bank, vital to Massachusetts' $500 million-a-year catch, would be protected from even the slightest risks of pollution. Oilmen, who estimate that there may be 180 million to 650 million bbl. of oil and from 1.2 trillion to 4.2 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas in the region, sought to calm the fishermen's fears by promising to take proper precautions against leaks and spills. The Interior Department tried to counter objections by reducing the size of the proposed sale from 155 tracts to 128 covering...
...Supreme Court will not decide before late this month whether it will even hear an appeal of the federal court ruling banning Baltimore Canyon drilling. Resolution of the Georges Bank dispute will take longer. Environmentalists and public officials in Massachusetts and on Long Island insist that they are not trying to prevent offshore oil production permanently. But they make it clear that they intend to delay drilling until they are satisfied their coastlines and fisheries are being properly protected...
...House last week adopted an amended and, according to environmentalists, weakened version of the same measure. A compromise could get the legislation to President Carter's desk by April or May. Even after that it would still take the Interior Department months to set up a new Georges Bank lease sale. Meanwhile, sales scheduled for later this year of leases off the Georgia coast and in the Gulf of Mexico may also be delayed...