Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could not have been more improbable or unexpected. It was as if a messenger from Allah had descended to the Promised Land on a magic carpet...
...Geneva meeting this year. Menachem Begin's government was adamantly opposed to a Palestine Liberation Organization presence at negotiations. By fostering new settlements on the West Bank, the Israeli government had made clear that it would not allow the establishment of an autonomous Palestinian state in the occupied land it refers to as Judea and Samaria. The U.S. estimate was that the Israelis would eventually go to Geneva, but it would be an uphill struggle merely to get them there...
...trip to Jerusalem represented something of a reversal of Sadat's previously stated positions. As recently as February, Sadat told TIME that "as long as there is an Israeli soldier on my land I am not ready to contact anyone in Israel at all." In discussing a possible end to hostilities between Israel and Egypt, Sadat has long argued that normal relations could not be restored immediately after a peace treaty was signed. He has cited as precedent the 22 years that it took for the U.S. to acknowledge a Communist regime in Peking. Lately, however, Sadat has suggested...
...chained in his cell for most of the 26 days he spent in detention-as well as during two full nights of interrogation. During the last 24 hours of his life, he had been driven, still unclothed but covered by a blanket, in the back of a police Land-Rover all the way to Pretoria, where he died of the head injuries 14 hours later...
...peers beyond individual details to "make out the final chapters of Eastern European history, its way of life down to the last coffin nail, its untold mental anguish, its ill-concealed hind thoughts, the well-tended museum of its anxieties, its fits of rage over a strip of grazing land...