Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another big attraction would the Gaza Strip, not the controversial length of sand it is now, but rather a vast crystal wonderland--a meltdown of the sand dunes into an elaborate glass landscape...
...days they had spent together at the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. On Sept. 18, President Jimmy Carter told Congress that Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin had agreed to a freeze on the building of new Israeli settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip until an autonomy agreement for those territories had been negotiated--a process that could take several years. For his part, Begin insisted that the freeze applied only to the three months that would be required to work out the final details of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel...
...play the cards in his hands" and who was "meticulous in turning words to his advantage." Although he agreed to an Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai, he won not only a peace with Egypt but also a "comparatively free hand for Israel in dealing with the West Bank and Gaza." Concludes Quandt: "For Begin, Sinai had been sacrificed, but Eretz Israel had been...
Hussein made the announcement in an emotional 3 1/2-hour speech over Jordanian television, addressed to 1.3 million Palestinians in the Israeli- occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as to his own 2.8 million subjects. The King thus broke off a year-old partnership with Arafat in which the two Arab leaders had sought ways to resolve the Palestinian problem through negotiations with Israel. Said the weary Hussein: "Yes, brothers and sisters, we have gone through a grueling year of intensive effort and faced a host of obstacles, in many instances exceeding the limits of our endurance...
...also someone has to speak for the Palestinians, and for all the P.L.O.'s divisions, no realistic substitute has yet been found. Says one U.S. diplomat: "The equation has not been changed. You cannot say, 'These bozos have no place.' No one in the West Bank or in Gaza or anywhere else is saying, 'Let's finish with the P.L.O.' " So the P.L.O. lurches and stumbles...