Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prospects for a settlement in the Middle East rise and fall as erratically as the Dow Jones averages. Last week the peace market suddenly turned bullish. Failure to agree on a Sinai pact would simply be "unthinkable," said an Egyptian official. "Let's get it over with," Israeli Chief of Staff Lieut. General Mordechai Gur added gruffly...
...Staff has hitherto considered them indispensable to the country's security. Since the October war in 1973, Jerusalem has spent $60 million fortifying nature's own impressive defenses, honeycombing the black granite with miniforts and electronic gear that can detect MIG planes preparing to take off from Egyptian fields on the other side of the Suez Canal...
...twelve to 100 civilians, would probably be stationed at the Umm Khisheib early warning installation above Giddi Pass and at six or seven other sites within the two passes or just to the west of them. They would probably be joined by Israeli technicians on the east side and Egyptian technicians on the west side; all would man electronic reconnaissance and surveillance gear. The Ford Administration, which would prefer that U.N. forces take on the potentially dangerous task, is decidedly cool to the notion of such American involvement. But Israel has insisted and may well get its way. "An attack...
...Egyptian-Israeli disengagement talks have had their ups and downs, but last week the Boston Globe may have rocked them further with a front-page story that Israel had a secret arsenal of more than ten nuclear weapons. Nobody had ever before reported so authoritatively that Israel possessed bombs, though it had been widely assumed. What upset some observers -particularly those at the Pentagon and in the State Department-was less the revelation than the name of the article's author, William Beecher. Globe Diplomatic Correspondent Beecher was for the past two years-until last May -Principal Deputy Assistant...
Israel had responded to the Egyptian moves by calling up reservists to the Sinai front, but Rabin and his government doubted all along that Egypt was economically or militarily ready for another war. The Israelis were less angered by Egypt's threat than by some of the hostile language emanating from Cairo. Sadat referred to Israel as an "imperial creation" and as "a dagger in Egypt's side." Visibly annoyed, Premier Rabin charged that Sadat was not serious about peace, and that there could be no agreement unless and until the Egyptians agree to face-to-face talks...