Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visit than William Randolph Hearst's newspapers had to do with the Spanish-American War. No doubt its technology has changed society; technology often does. It has been argued that the developing use of the stirrup, which enabled a rider to carry a lance, created the system of land payments to knights and hence created the entire system of feudalism. Television can draw the world into a single experience - a moon shot, an assassination. McLuhan himself takes a benign view of the televised Sadat visit. "That," he believes, "was the human family sitting down together. It by passed history...
...West Bank, with intense economic aid, could theoretically absorb all the Palestinian refugees; nonetheless, the new entity should have the right to impose immigration quotas. Palestinians who fled what is now Israel after 1948 would receive compensation for land they were forced to abandon. So would Jews who quit their Arab homelands and settled in Israel. The size of the payments would be set by an international commission created for this purpose and be financed by a multinational consortium, which would include Israel and the Arab states...
...suburban settlements. The Old City, with its many holy shrines, would be turned into a self-administered, internationalized community-in effect, a Vatican of the Middle East. Mount Scopus, the site of Hebrew University, would remain Israeli, connected to the Jewish state by a strip of land. The rest of East Jerusalem would be linked to the entity and could even serve as its administrative capital, just as West Jerusalem serves as Israel's capital. In any formula, unhindered access to the holy shrines-which would be administered by the religions to which they are sacred-is guaranteed...
Guarantees. In return for major territorial concessions, what does Israel get? In exchange for land, Israel would obtain what it has consistently demanded: recognition and acceptance from Arab states, and security-guaranteed not only by its own forces but by U.S. and perhaps other states' as well. There would be international peace-keeping forces under U.N. supervision in Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan Heights-which Israel and the Arabs could monitor. In addition, Israel and the U.S. would negotiate a treaty, comparable to the mutual defense pact with Japan or NATO, that would pledge Washington to move...
...winds subsided last week at least 12,000 people had died in India's most devastating tropical storm since 1971. What had turned the storm into a killer were the 18-ft. tidal waves that swept as far as 15 miles inland across the low-lying rice land and coconut gardens of the Krishna River delta. About 150 sq. mi. of land became a solid sheet of water. Twenty-one villages, 13 of them in the delta, were inundated, leaving 2 million homeless. The port of Machilipatnam, 20 miles upriver, was destroyed. All told, about 2 million acres were...