Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vowed: "As long as there is an Israeli soldier on my land, I am not ready to contact anyone in Israel at all." Thus his announcement caught even his wife Jihan by surprise (see box). In fact, Sadat had secretly been mulling over the idea for some months. On Nov. 14 Sadat told CBS-TV's Walter Cronkite that he was ready to go to Jerusalem if asked. Menachem Begin responded with Israel's formal invitation. One of the diplomatic sensations of the century was accomplished...
Looked at on a map, Egypt is a big country: 386,900 sq. mi., or about the size of France and Spain put together. A satellite photo, which can distinguish between desert and arable land, tells a different story. Viewed from space, the real Egypt?the land that man can live on?is small and lotus-shaped. A thin, two-to ten-mile-wide strip of green, the flower's stem, follows the Nile north from the Sudan border; then, near Cairo, comes the blossom, the Nile Delta. In that narrow space of 13,800 sq. mi., no larger than...
...Nile has molded the country's character as well as its geography. Men needed organization to cope with the ebbs and floods of the fickle river; thus civilization emerged. They required some means of surveying their tiny plots of irrigated land; thus geometry became necessary. Protected in their green river valley by the desert's barriers, the ancient Egyptians constructed perdurable institutions, of which the pyramids remain as awesome symbols. With scarcely an interruption, pharaoh succeeded pharaoh and dynasty followed dynasty for nearly 3,000 years before Christ, a continuity of government unmatched by any other people. To appreciate...
...families and pre-martial law political opponents who constitute his primary opposition.* All three leading Manila newspapers are owned by Marcos' friends, and the five television stations are controlled either by friends or by the government itself. TV was full of spot commercials, to the gaudy music of Land of Hope and Glory, urging viewers to vote. Newspapers gave heavy play to what Marcos said; when opponents answered back, the stories were often buried deep on inside pages...
...seem limitless. But planners were faced with many troublesome restrictions. Because of the intense rivalry between Anchorage and Fairbanks, the No. 2 city (pop. 52,200). both were ruled out. For the same reason, the new capital had to be at least 30 miles from either locality. Also the land had to be state owned; anticipating large new tax revenues from the booming oil fields and the trans-Alaska pipeline, Alaska has gone on a spending binge that has brought it to the edge of bankruptcy; thus the state could not afford expensive land purchases...