Word: buffer
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...purple line," as the post-'67 war boundary is colored on Israeli maps. The Israelis were also willing to give up much of the bomb-blasted Golan town of Quneitra and allow a limited number of Syrian refugees to return there. Their conditions for disengagement included a United Nations buffer zone, a limited-arms zone on either side of the buffer and a system of U.N. arms inspections of the thinned-out opposing forces, which Kissinger must now work...
Only long-range multinational planning can cope with the problem. For example, there could be a United Nations-sponsored international birth control program, an expansion of fertilizer production, and the storing of adequate food reserves as a buffer against periodic poor harvests. Members of the United Nations hope to consider those proposals when they gather in Bucharest during August for a conference on population, and in Rome in November for a conference on food. Their task is formidable. Between now and the time they begin their deliberations, the world's population will have increased by 30 million...
...same time an even stronger external pressure for white minority rule is likely. Angola and Mozambique are seen by the Republic of South Africa and Rhodesia as buffer states against a potential black African liberationist onslaught. These vast expanses of land--each well larger than Texas--thoroughly insulate South Africa from contact with any black nationalist government, and make infiltration and supply of potential antiapartheid guerrillas nearly impossible. This is one of the main reasons South Africa has entirely escaped any militant insurgency...
...early in April. Both Israel and Syria have agreed to attend disengagement talks in Washington; at Syrian insistence, each will meet separately with U.S. officials. Apart from a peremptory Syrian rejection of Israel's first disengagement proposals (which involved P.O.W. exchanges, limited Israeli withdrawal and a possible U.N. buffer zone between the two armies), nothing much has happened to spur the talks forward...
...perhaps even bigger ones. Declares Columbia Professor Emile Benoit, an expert on the economics of defense: "We don't know how much we will spend, and we may be even less secure in the end." Indeed, the 1975 budget request includes about $10 million for a Command Data Buffer System that would allow the U.S. to switch a missile to a new target in 20 minutes. The process, which requires programming each missile's computers, now takes up to 36 hours...