Word: golan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Syria could help finance a Disney World on the Golan Heights, and Iraq and Algeria face each other in a super soccer stadium at Sharm el Sheikh. Yassir Arafat could retire on a pension, Anwar Sadat take a job as headwaiter in a kosher restaurant, and Colonel Gaddafi mount his white camel and ride off into the desert forever...
Along with their remarkable self-confidence goes an abiding and rather awesome sense of perseverance. The Israelis protested loudly when France reneged on a promise to sell them 50 Mirage jets-and ended up stealing the plans and building the planes themselves. For years, children in kibbutzim near the Golan Heights were put to bed every night in bomb shelters; in the end, Israel stormed those seemingly unassailable enemy positions and sent the Syrians scuttling toward Damascus. The Israelis persevere manfully with the Hebrew language, despite the fact that almost every conversation is punctuated with shrill cries...
...lowest level of all are the 1,000,000 Arabs in the occupied territories. Their fate is at the very core of the Israeli dilemma today. So far, Israel has formally annexed only the 19 sq. mi. (and 70,000 inhabitants) of East Jerusalem; but the Golan Heights, Sharm el Sheikh at the tip of the Sinai Peninsula and the access road along the Gulf of Aqaba have also been annexed in everything but name. The government's strategy is to create an interlocking economy between Israel and the territories, and today 30% of the territories' labor force...
...backing for her increasingly militant stand. A survey published last week by the Institute for Applied Social Research in Jerusalem noted that 58% of Israeli adults opposed concessions on the West Bank (v. 41% a year ago). Other findings: 96% want to keep Sharm el Sheikh and 93% the Golan Heights; 63% are prepared to give up part of the Sinai Desert in return for a peace settlement, but 66% feel that the Gaza Strip, formerly held by Egypt, is not negotiable...
...Black, Dave Chase and Bill Cole also won their singles matches, with only number six man Jeff Golan going down to defeat...