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...Golan Heights. But this is really only a temporary situation. Israel cannot tolerate a return to the dangerous situation of a year and a half ago, when terrorists used southern Lebanon as a base for their attacks against Israel. We want a neutral zone in southern Lebanon-not a buffer zone-in which no forces exist except Lebanese forces-not U.N. forces-that keep the security and tranquillity...
...Gobi deserts to the beginning of the Great Wall of China (see map page 51). The historic line against invaders is being built anew today. This time the Great Wall of China is not bricks and stone but people and new industry. The borderlands are being developed as a buffer to protect the inner core of China, the land of the Han people...
Another popular theory, the Harvard-MIT Polarity Formulation, states that because Central Square serves as the buffer zone, the proverbial no-man's land, separating Harvard and its real estate from the Kendall Square university, neither school has a real interest in Central. Consequently, nothing ever gets done there. In fact, each resident has his own Theory, and there are some mighty strange hybrids, too. The Red Line Theory has always been a favorite (the Red Line's next-to-last stop is in Central Square, you see, and the subway disgorges all sorts of unsavory non-residents there...
...could ride, South Africa would keep control of Namibia (South West Africa), the onetime League of Nations mandated territory that it has ruled since 1920. Not only does Namibia produce some $300 million worth of minerals a year (diamonds, uranium, copper, lead), but it also serves as a partial buffer against the black states to the north...
...Namibian government is expected to sign a security agreement allowing South African troops to be based on Namibian soil. The troops will defend the new government against SWAPO guerrilla raids. More important from South Africa's viewpoint, they will preserve Namibia's status as a buffer to the north...