Word: elath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...essential to Egypt for its "daily life and security" - the Suez Canal and the Suez Gulf. "Sharm el Sheikh," he added, "is not essential in any way for Egypt. We should stay there. Sinai should be divided by one line or an other. We would control the straits to Elath but not to Port Said. One day Egypt will have a leadership that will be ready to start negotiating...
...Egypt more than two-thirds of the Sinai peninsula (see map), restoring the 1949 Israeli-Egyptian armistice line along much of the northern border. Israel would keep the Gaza Strip and a large share of the mountainous southern Sinai, in a triangle bordering the Gulf of Aqaba from Elath to Sharm el Sheikh. At least as the Israelis envisioned it, the Egyptian portion of the Sinai would be demilitarized. As of last week, the Israelis had not decided what legal status they should seek for the Sinai territory they expect to retain-whether it should be annexed or occupied...
DUSK had just descended on the flat, lonely Arava wilderness north of Elath when the two convoys of cars approached each other at a border point where Israel and Jordan meet. Prearranged signals were flashed, and the convoy from Jordan sped into Israel. Some of the Jordanians joined the Israeli convoy, which moved to a secluded spot. For 90 minutes, Jordan's King Hussein and Israel's Deputy Premier Yigal Allon carried on an undisturbed conversation in an air-conditioned car. Israeli security men maintained a lookout, and Israeli army units near by went on the alert, without...
...Cherbourg in December in defiance of France's arms embargo. Each Sa'ar (Hebrew for storm) carries eight Gabriels. According to Pentagon specialists, the missile represents a technological breakthrough and greatly outperforms the Soviet Styx system, which the Egyptian navy used to sink the Israeli destroyer Elath in 1967. Its guidance is self-contained, combining both infra-red (heat-seeking) and radar-homing techniques. The Gabriel hunts down its target at such low levels that it becomes coated with sea spray on long flights. Washington is particularly interested in the fact that the new missile seems...
...Amman by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco. Arab commandos decided to disrupt the visit to protest U.S. aid to Israel, and the King apparently chose not to stop them. Only a few days earlier, he had vetoed a fedayeen plan to bombard the Israeli seaport of Elath while that city was crowded with Passover tourists, and ordered Jordanian troops to disarm 14 rockets the guerrillas were to have used. The Sisco visit offered Hussein an opportunity to patch things up with the guerrillas by not interfering with their plans...