Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lesser problems that had to be worked out included Egypt's demand for compensation for oil that Israel has pumped from the Gulf of Suez during the eleven years of Israeli occupation, and the Israeli demand for payment for its investment in roads, airfields and settlements in the Sinai during the same period...
Then came eleven years of Israeli occupation, and the desert began to bloom. The Israelis settled 4,500 people there, primarily in the towns of Yamit and Ofi-ra and in 15 agricultural communities. They grew vegetables in Rafah and built resorts on the Gulf of Aqaba. They spent $150 million on civilian enterprises and $2 billion on military installations, including two big new airfields, two old ones, three early warning stations and about 1,000 miles of roads. Jerusalem continued to develop the Sinai even after the disengagement agreements of 1974 and 1975, under which the Israelis pulled back...
...said Shlomo Re'em, a resident of the Israeli settlement of Di-Zahav on the Gulf of Aqaba. As TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Dean Fischer and Correspondent David Halevy discovered on a tour through Sinai last week, inhabitants of the 18 Israeli settlements in the peninsula are united in feeling that they have been betrayed by the Camp David accords, and by their own government...
...during the 1973 October War and returned to invest $17,000 in a seaside restaurant. Now Shmuel hopes bravely that "the people who brought me here will take care of me." But in the barren, hard-baked south, between a range of sawtooth mountains and the clearwater, coral-reefed Gulf of Aqaba, the government retained ownership of the land. In Ofira (pop. 1,000), residents enjoy subsidized rents that average $40 a month along with more generous income tax deductions than other Israelis receive. Evacuation ought to be financially easier for many southerners, but they are as bitter about...
...territorial "acquisitions by conquest," should not be part of any Camp David agreement. Arguments over this, says one participant, are "mind-blowing" and incredibly legalistic. Three hours devoted to "the inadmissibility of acquisitions" phrase. Worried Americans take lunch on a patio, ponder some way to bridge the West Bank gulf. They devise ingenious two-track solution: let Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Palestinians negotiate at one level over final status of West Bank; let Israel and Jordan also seek a peace treaty at same time, with Palestinian participation. Israel's Barak is shown this U.S. proposal. "This is much better...