Word: camped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even in the euphoria following the historic Camp David agreements last September, everyone knew the hard part was yet to come. While Egyptian-Israeli relations began a new era, the central issue of the Middle East remained unsettled: the fate of the Palestinian people. The Arab states basically favor an independent sovereign state for the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, a home both for Palestinians already living there and for millions now in the diaspora. The Israelis, appalled at the notion of a hostile state, perhaps run by Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, on Israel...
...Israeli sensitivities, U.S. officials flatly ruled out voting for any draft that endorsed an independent Palestinian state, but they have not dismissed the idea of approving a milder resolution that would affirm the Palestinians' legitimate political rights. Such phraseology would merely align the language of 242 with the Camp David accords, and Carter Administration officials doubted that it could lead to an imminent U.S.-P.L.O. dialogue. Still, such a diplomatic flirtation jolted the Israeli government. So did U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's warning last week that Israel may have violated a 1952 military aid agreement...
...strip and take "showers." They were crammed into gas chambers so tightly that babies were often thrust in over the heads of adults. The doors were then closed and the gas jets turned on. There were few survivors of Treblinka. In shame the Germans later tore down the camp's structures, and now all that stands on the bare acreage is a kind of modern Stonehenge...
...those children, Elie Wiesel, led the commission on to Birkenau, the neighboring camp, where crematories once burned night and day. Linking arms with four other survivors, Wiesel marched over the tracks that had brought him here a world ago and laid a wreath on a monument to the fallen. "Do not let your eyes deceive you," he said quietly...
...camp dining room is in an uproar...