Word: east
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middle East political landscape seemed filled last week with what the diplomats call signals, and almost all of them involved the Palestine Liberation Organization. Even as the Administration was busy protesting that President Carter had been misinterpreted in his analogy comparing the Palestinian cause with the U.S. civil rights movement, Washington was actively reviewing U.S. posture toward Yasser Arafat's P.L.O...
...plan to replace the 4,000-man armed U.N. Emergency Force in the Sinai with a much smaller number of unarmed truce observers. More important, Washington wanted to buy time for private bargaining over the diplomatic language to be used in a possible new U.N. resolution on the Middle East...
...perhaps even some P.L.O. officials, into the talks between the Israelis and the Egyptians on the future of the West Bank and Gaza. This would greatly help Washington's effort to prove to skeptical Arab governments that the Egyptian-Israeli agreement can indeed lead to a comprehensive Middle East peace deal...
Coal mining is also picking up in the prairies sloping east of the Rockies...
Because various groups have blocked the projects, the U.S. has built no oil refinery on the East Coast since 1957, no deepwater port that can take a 300,000-ton tanker. Given the power of the many single-issue factions, given the complexity of the restrictions, how can the U.S. ever develop its energy...