Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Israel is ready to give up land, military bases and oilfields in the Sinai. In return, she gets peace. Maybe. If, after Israeli withdrawal, there is no progress on other fronts, the peace treaty would be nullified. It would be absurd for Israel to agree to this. MaIke Wartelsky New York City...
...military and economic strength in the Middle East. Now it appears that the 37-year reign of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi is almost over, ended by months of rising civil unrest and revolution (see following story). Regardless of what kind of government comes to power in this immensely strategic land, the politics of the region, and indeed the geopolitics of the entire world, will be affected...
Directly south of Iran across the Persian Gulf is Saudi Arabia, whose traditional monarchic system remains intact but which is nevertheless highly vulnerable: only 8 million people live in a land one-fourth the size of the U.S. that possesses the world's largest proven oil reserves...
...Land said Wednesday that after his retirement from Polaroid in several years he hopes to conduct "experiments in pure science and in other new fields that may interest me" in his planned scientific center...
...Land developed the first modern polarizers of light, which led to his subsequent invention of the Polaroid photographic process...