Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palm Desert, Calif...
Tallo dressed down one tank that was taking too much time shelling a bunker into which several Egyptians had fled. "The Jews are getting excited," he explained. Then he added, in some frustration: "The Egyptians are running away, and we cannot clobber them." Watching desert dogs fleeing from the Israeli tanks, Tallo said in disgust: "Even the dogs are running away...
...occupied territories are included, controls six times more territory than it did in 1948. "Who's done the most pushing so far?" asks a ranking Western diplomat in Cairo. "It's not been the Arabs pushing Israel into the sea, but Israel pushing the Arabs into the desert...
...SINAI PENINSULA. There is no real reason why this 23,440-sq. mi. expanse of desert should be a major issue of dispute. Israel says it makes no claim on the land itself, except as a military buffer. One plausible solution would be to return sovereignty to Egypt, but at the same time to demilitarize the Egyptian side of the border between the Sinai and Israel. This border could be perhaps 20 to 30 miles deep, enough territory to keep each side out of artillery or short-range rocket attack from the other...
...best trick is the no-transition paragraph that picks up not where the action left off but two paragraphs of conventional narration later. The reader has to guess what happened in between, and the overall effect makes him feel that he is the one out there in the desert with the vultures...