Word: canals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington as the home base for its Trident submarines. To support these su-persubs*-which are designed to replace the Polaris and Poseidon as nuclear deterrents-the Navy planned a $600 million complex with an estimated population of as many as 55,000 people. But the tract borders Hood Canal, a deep marine estuary leading off Puget Sound, and the more that local environmentalists learned about the Navy's plan the more convinced they became that the base would destroy the area's natural beauty...
...have usually been bellicose or scornful. Last week their moods meshed again but, for a change, the tone was optimistic. Israeli leaders praised Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for the way he has switched home-front priorities from war planning to such economic goals as the reopening of the Suez Canal this spring. "If this tendency grows," promised a key Israeli Cabinet minister, "we will concede a lot, although we will not be squeezed...
...will hand back the Abu Rudeis oilfields along the Gulf of Suez. Egypt, for its part, shows new willingness to sign a longer-term cease-fire-providing such an agreement might lead to a final peace treaty-and to allow nonmilitary Israeli cargoes to pass through the Suez Canal aboard non-Israeli ships after the canal reopens in the spring...
...Egyptians would have welcomed Brezhnev would have been the chance to renegotiate Soviet debts. The total is a closely guarded secret in Cairo, but it has been estimated to range as high as $7 billion. Cairo is anxious for a Sinai settlement because it will generate Suez Canal revenues of at least $390 million a year and also provide a badly needed 36.5 million bbl. of oil annually if the Israelis return Abu Rudeis...
...Rudeis now pumps out annually. Israel might also give up the passes, according to these officials, if: 1) the area were demilitarized, 2) the term of the disengagement ran for several years, 3) Israeli cargoes (though not necessarily Israeli ships) had rights of passage through the Suez Canal, and 4) Egypt tacitly agreed to some kind of assurance of nonbelligerence. Egypt may find some of these points more acceptable than Allon's December proposals...