Word: canals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less even than this already dubious possibility, Israel was supposed to surrender the Abu Rudeis oil fields, which provide the country with nearly half of its requisite oil supply, and the Gidi and Mitla passes, natural fortifications essential for Israel to ward off a surprise attack like the Egyptian canal crossing of October...
Sadat interpreted the negotiations as primarily involving a second-stage military disentanglement. He wanted major pullbacks of Israeli forces in the Sinai, which would allow Egypt to reopen the Suez Canal. Israel was willing to withdraw from the strategic Giddi and Mitla passes in the Sinai (see map page 14) and also from the Abu Rudeis oilfields, which have been pumping Egyptian oil for Israel since they were captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. In return, however...
Sadat also announced that the Suez Canal would be reopened June 5 - the eighth anniversary of the 1967 war in which Israel's troops reached the east bank of the waterway, resulting in its closing. Although Sadat did not indicate whether Israeli ships or cargo would be allowed to transit the canal, its reopening and the repopulating by Egyptians of towns along its banks have been awaited as concrete signs that Cairo prefers to pursue a policy of peace. He warned, however, that Egypt was capable of protecting the canal: "We possess a deterrent capacity that makes our enemy...
...Britain faces a divisive three months before the vote during which pro-Market industry and antiMarket unions will line up on different sides. Laborites will fight Laborites, and many British families will be more politically divided than they have been since the Suez Canal crisis of 1956. In short, Wilson may have worked out a formula for saving his own political neck-at the cost of hopelessly dividing the party that elected him as its standardbearer...
...determined to deprive President Ford of the opportunity to appoint a conservative jurist to the court. On the job again and in high spirits, the old mountaineer gave an optimistic order to his secretary: "Tell the press to get ready. We're going to be back walking the canal pretty soon...