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...radar network in the other's zone-the Russians in the Western zone, on or close to the Rhine; the NATO members somewhere in Poland. This was no impractical talk of a neutral zone, but a fresh contribution to the tired old lexicon of "demili tarized areas" and "buffer zones," and conceived in large terms...
...Egypt who could give such an order and have it obeyed. Last week, further curbing some of his impatient lieutenants and the Moslem hotheads who would like to provoke a full-scale war with Israel, he endorsed United Nations efforts to create a buffer zone or stretch a barrier along the border dividing Israel and Egypt at the hypersensitive Gaza strip. There is an intimate connection between Nasser and The Strip. It was there that the fuse was lit to Egypt's 1952 revolution, and it was Gamal Nasser who struck the match...
...objection of its own. The Israelis think the fence is fine, because it would help stop unlawful border crossings, but they dislike a demilitarized zone because many f their new farm settlements run right up to the line. Egypt's Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser likes the border buffer zone (he himself proposed it three months ago), but objects to building any border barriers because that might imply permanent acceptance of the frontier line drawn after the 1949 Palestine war. Technically, in Egypt's eyes, Israel is not a state, and therefore can have no boundaries, either plain...
With its allies, the U.S. recognizes the Soviet Union's traditional fear of a powerful Germany; the U.S. is therefore ready to concede that East Germany shall become a demilitarized buffer zone inside the reunified German state. The U.S. further accepts Sir Anthony Eden's plan to offer the Russians security by keeping the conventional arms of West Europe in balance with the East so that each region may coexist without fear-each strong enough to defend itself against the other, but not to attack...
...Alexander, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Babur all invaded it. In the 19th century the British Empire, following a northwesterly course, approached the Hindu Kush and southward-marching Russians. In the end, Britain and the Czars, fearful of what might happen if their armies met, agreed to keep Afghanistan as a buffer state...