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...repeatedly denied that maltreatment or torture is part of its official policy. But members of the diplomatic corps as well as of volunteer groups have witnessed numerous incidents of demonstrators being beaten during arrests. "I know torture happens," says Hugh Harcort, 48, an American professor of cultural studies at Bir Zeit University. "I don't know how you prove it, but if I see one of my students picked up by the Israelis and I see that he is injured when he is released, what am I supposed to think?" Amnesty International has asked Israel for an investigation...
...street or do exercises for hours at a time. On at least one occasion, a group of 100 men were taken to the local military headquarters to pick weeds for most of the night. "If we didn't move fast enough," reported a 17-year-old student from Bir Zeit College, "they beat us with their fists and sticks. One soldier told me, 'Your hair is too long.' I said, 'Why do you say that? Don't Jews have long hair?' He said, 'We do, but you shouldn't because...
...under way on housing for hundreds more. Central Sinai, east of the Giddi and Mitla passes, is a natural battlefield and ideal tank country. So far, Israel and Egypt have fought three wars there in only 20 years. Israel intends to hold this area with military installations. At Bir Gifgafa, 15 miles north of the Giddi Pass, is a giant forward base containing tank-repair shops and jet-fighter strips that could be relinquished. But closer to Israel, newer and more sophisticated airbases have been or are being built. Etzion, near Eilat, and Etam, about 30 miles south of Rafah...
...more punch for the Israeli pound from a smaller army using more advanced technology. Even as Israeli forces in the Sinai began their preparations for a pullback last week, Chief of Staff General Mordechai Gur talked about the new positions they will take up. At a briefing at Bir Gifgafa in the Sinai, attended by TIME Correspondent Donald Neff, Gur said: "I would like to remove the word lines from our lexicon. If in the future we see that the agreement has substance, I believe we won't have a new line." What Gur envisions are rolling defensive positions...
...will move from twelve to 30 miles eastward; the Egyptians will advance two to nine miles eastward. The buffer zone between them will thus be greatly widened, reducing the chances of an accidental clash. Israel, however, will retain mountains overlooking the eastern part of the two passes, the large Bir Gifgafa airbase just northeast of the Giddi Pass, and the Umm Khisheib electronic monitoring station northwest of the Giddi Pass...