Word: giddy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traffic across this corner of hell since time immemorial." Last week the U.S. Congress passed a joint resolution that will allow some 200 American technicians to become the latest pilgrims to the Sinai. The U.S. technicians will act as "custodians" at two multimillion-dollar surveillance sites along the Giddi Pass. They will also man two or three new watch stations in the area. Their life will not be easy, as TIME'S Jerusalem bureau chief Donald Neff discovered when he went on a Jeep-borne tour of the area. His report...
...Palais des Nations put their pens to the interim Sinai accord. Also as expected, the Israelis only initialed the documents, withholding full signatures-and full binding agreement to the Sinai package-until an Administration proposal to station up to 200 technicians at monitoring posts around the Mitla and Giddi passes is approved by Congress. Nevertheless, some uneasiness continued to surface on Capitol Hill about parts of the Administration's Sinai deal. The main focus is the private Kissinger assurance to the Israelis that they will get a "positive" hearing on their request for some sophisticated weapons, including Pershing missiles...
...supervision during the next two weeks, there were no real surprises in the final accord. The general principles had been more or less accepted by both sides before Kissinger undertook his shuttle (TIME cover, Aug. 25). The Israelis agreed to move their troops out of the Mitla and Giddi passes in Sinai and also turn back to Egypt the Abu Rudeis oilfields captured during the Six-Day War. Egypt agreed in writing to let Israeli nonmilitary cargoes pass through the Suez Canal. Both sides agreed that the Middle East conflict should not be resolved by force and that neither side...
TROOP SHIFTS. Israel will give up the strategic Giddi and Mitla passes, which will become part of a demilitarized buffer zone patrolled by the U.N. Emergency Force. Israeli troops will move from twelve to 30 miles eastward; the Egyptians will advance two to nine miles eastward. The buffer zone between them will thus be greatly widened, reducing the chances of an accidental clash. Israel, however, will retain mountains overlooking the eastern part of the two passes, the large Bir Gifgafa airbase just northeast of the Giddi Pass, and the Umm Khisheib electronic monitoring station northwest of the Giddi Pass...
...many Americans would be involved and in how many posts? Jerusalem wants a U.S. presence at six posts, and is also demanding that Israelis be allowed to run the sophisticated, multi-million-dollar station at Umm Khisheib above the Giddi Pass...