Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sadat has lately been wringing his hands about Israel's claimed right to defend its civilian settlements in the Sinai. In fact, Begin and his colleagues have left themselves considerable latitude to negotiate on that matter. The much more fundamental, probably insoluble problem is Begin's seeming commitment, passionately held and repeatedly articulated, to the incorporation into the Jewish state of what he calls the liberated territories of Judea and Samaria-and what most of the world, the U.S. included, calls the occupied territories of the West Bank...
...President, General Juan Melgar, 48, took power in a barracks coup three years ago and has since run the country by decree. Last month Melgar announced that he would convene a constituent assembly in 1979 to "reform" the constitution. This could eventually lead to the election of a civilian President. It could also lead to the constitutional ratification of what Melgar seized by force...
...insisted upon the right of Jews to live in Judea and Samaria (the biblical lands that encompassed the West Bank) and their historical obligation to settle it. On separate visits to Washington last year, Begin and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan assured U.S. officials that there would be no new civilian settlements in the West Bank and that any new pioneers in the area would live within the confines of existing army camps...
...letter about Shiloh to Begin, who was said to be shocked and angered by its language. Privately, Administration officials are furious, feeling they have not been fairly treated by the Premier and his colleagues. They understood Dayan to have told them last September that there would be no new civilian settlements in the West Bank "for a year." Or did he mean for the remainder of 1977? It is unclear whether the other nine settlements started since October will eventually be turned over to civil authority, but there is little doubt that Shiloh is intended to become a permanent settlement...
...buffer zone, and retain their settlements along the Gulf of Aqaba?but only under Egyptian rule, as Cairo's "welcome guests." More important, the Egyptians seemed ready to allow Israel to keep its big military airbase at Etzion and continue using the military airbase at Eitam as a civilian airfield. Weizman took the proposals home with him for Begin's Cabinet to study, and hopes to renew the talks within two or three weeks...