Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overall "statement of principles" that Sadat feels is necessary as a framework for Middle East peace negotiations. And though the Israelis talked of being willing to negotiate all disputed issues, they keep pressing forward with their policy of establishing illegal settlements in the occupied territories of the West Bank and the Sinai (see WORLD...
...provinces, separatism reinforces strains of a different kind. Western premiers are pressing for additions to their already considerable powers under Canada's founding British North America (BNA) Act of 1867. Among them: a provincial veto over federal decisions concerning natural resources, a greater say in the operation of the Bank of Canada and a hand in the appointment of Canada's Supreme Court judges. Says Manitoba Premier Sterling Lyon: "English Canada tends to see Ottawa's tunnel vision [toward Quebec] as distracting from real issues...
Sadat left for the U.S. at a time of rising tension between the U.S. and Israel over the establishment of new Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River. There are only about 4,500 Israelis in the West Bank (compared with 700,000 Arabs). Nonetheless, the U.S. has always opposed the settlements, partly because they violate Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits a country from moving its own people into occupied territories, and partly because the pioneer communities are a provocation to the Arabs. On the other hand, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin...
...said to be shocked and angered by its language. Privately, Administration officials are furious, feeling they have not been fairly treated by the Premier and his colleagues. They understood Dayan to have told them last September that there would be no new civilian settlements in the West Bank "for a year." Or did he mean for the remainder of 1977? It is unclear whether the other nine settlements started since October will eventually be turned over to civil authority, but there is little doubt that Shiloh is intended to become a permanent settlement...
Since the action occurs around 1941, the two audiences react in vastly different ways. The U.S. memory bank of World War II does not contain the traumatic wound dealt the Russians who suffered casualties in the millions at German hands. The valor, the burden and exhilaration of common sacrifice experienced in Russia during those years simply did not exist on the American home front. Thus the bruising flood of memory that Russians bring to Echelon can come from U.S. audiences only in spurts...