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...buffer zone separating the two sides now averages only six miles and narrows to as little as two miles. It would be considerably widened to an average width of 30 miles. This would greatly reduce the threat of accidental clashes between the two armies. Israel would pull back approximately 25 to 30 miles from its present "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...
...Egypt, under an unpublished part of the pact, would pledge to renew annually for three years the mandate of the U.N. Emergency Force now in the buffer zone. It would also allow Israeli cargoes through the Suez Canal, soften its anti-Israel propaganda, pledge not to support efforts by other Arab states to oust Israel from the U.N., and temper its current economic boycott of firms doing business with Israel. Sadat, of course, has already reopened the Suez Canal and twice extended the mandate of the U.N. buffer force. Under the same unpublished codicil, Israel would apparently accept the principle...
...thinning-out was the result of Rabin's request to the Cabinet and his military advisers for ideas on how Israel should respond to the canal's reopening. One proposal was the Israeli forces might pull back four miles, ceding the abandoned territory to the U.N. buffer force. An objection to that idea was that the cost of new defenses further back would be at least $50 million, above and beyond the $250 million that Israel has spent on its present positions. In the end, however, Rabin rejected it mainly because such a move would radically alter...
...agreement among 29 countries, which is managed by the London-based International Tin Council, consisting of producers and consumers. (The U.S. does not belong.) The council maintains the metal's price within a specified range, principally by selling from buffer stocks when demand is high and imposing export quotas to restrict production when prices are falling...
...Legal Buffer. Joseph talks of his "church" as a "legal buffer" against prosecution, but he gets a low rating as a religious patriarch, even from Osteopath Rulon Allred, founder of the polygamous Montana community where Joseph once lived. Says Allred: "He used the doctrine of plural marriage to justify conduct not acceptable to the priesthood." Indeed, Joseph has acquired his 15 wives (who now have five children) rather casually. "I decided to marry Judy after 15 minutes," he says, "and I asked Paulette [age 16] after 29 hours." The obedient wives, most of whom work as waitresses in Joseph...