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...Blue Line," and Israeli guns would be 25 to 45 miles from the Suez Canal, out of range of Egypt's vital waterway and the new settlements President Sadat plans to establish on its banks. The lines would be drawn, however, so that Israel would retain the big Bir Gifgafa airfield...
...Egyptian counterproposal. Offering a map for the first time, Cairo reportedly accepted in principle the presence of Israelis at the eastern edge of the passes, although not in the same places that Jerusalem suggested. The lines drawn by the Egyptians came so close to the big Israeli airbase at Bir Gifgafa that Rabin, even before he consulted with his Cabinet, appeared on Israeli television to dismiss Cairo's suggestions out of hand...
...give up the passes. But the Israeli General Staff wants to keep the passes. Guiding newsmen on a tour of Giddi and Mitla last week, Colonel Simcha Maoz of the General Staff pointed out that any Egyptian armor allowed through the passes could outflank the mammoth Israeli base at Bir Gafgafa, 15 miles to the north...
...Katmandu courtyard echoing with these priestly chants, TIME's New Delhi correspondent, James Shepherd, last week witnessed the coronation of Nepal's King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva (see THE WORLD). Shepherd first encountered the elaborate ceremonies of the Hindu kingdom in 1956 at the coronation of Birendra's father, Mahendra. The correspondent arrived for that occasion aboard a rickety DC-3 that "slithered low over the Himalayan foothills, searching for the gap in the mountains through which we slipped into the Katmandu Valley." He has since reported on coronations of two other Himalayan monarchs, the Kings...
...towards India by the 7-10,000 foot Mahabharat Lekh range the Nepalese "foothills." To the north towards Tibet, the valley is bordered by the towering Himalayas. But this month the country is opening up to an lnvasion of several thousand tourists to witness the coronation, of King Birendra Bir Bikrum Shah Dev, a former special student in Government at Harvard...