Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat got a hero's welcome as he paid his first visit next day to Sinai's "caravan city." After flying to El Arish, he prayed in the sands of the Sinai and placed a wreath on the war tomb in honor of Egyptian soldiers who died in action. Then in a moving ceremony, Sadat kissed a huge Egyptian flag and raised it over El Arish. Shops had been painted, and the fountain in the town square, filled with trash since the start of the Israeli occupation in 1967, had been cleaned and filled with...
...dogs can go on barking-but they will not stop the caravan." So said Egypt's President Anwar Sadat last week, in a brave dismissal of critics within the Arab world who have denounced him as a traitor for signing a peace treaty with Israel. In fact, those "dogs" yapping at Sadat have plenty of bite. The truth is that the cost of peace for both Israel and Egypt is beginning to hurt in earnest...
...Robert S Strauss. But optimists on both sides emphasized the hope that if peace goes forward successfully, the immense military budgets can eventually be reduced. "When we speak about the cost of peace," says an Israeli banking official, "we cannot forget the cost of war." For the present, the "caravan" of the peace process was still advancing: this weekend both Egypt's and Israel's beleaguered but determined leaders will meet to preside over Israel's withdrawal from the city of El Arish in the northern Sinai...
...important road in Uganda, the 120-mile economic lifeline from Kampala to the Kenyan border. Carrying radios, tape recorders and assorted other loot that came their way with the fall of the Ugandan capital, 2,500 Tanzanian soldiers set off for the frontier at a leisurely pace in a caravan of twelve Land Rovers, three tanks, an armored personnel carrier and a Jeep with a mounted recoilless rifle. A second force, which literally moved at a walk because of a shortage of motor transport, headed north to take control of the Israeli-built airfield at Nakasongola, 66 miles from Kampala...
...Muhammad accepted a marriage proposal from Khadijah, a rich Meccan widow 15 years his senior, for whom he had led a successful caravan. With his financial security assured by Khadijah's wealth and business, he began to venture into the desert, to contemplate and pray, as had other Arab holy men before...