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Apart from Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, Mr. Eban is on record on countless occasions as supporting the general principle though not necessarily any detailed map ot the Allon plan, under which there would be changes in the previous Israel-Jordan armistice lines without, however, including the Arab populated areas of the West Bank. Similarly Mr. Eban opposes a return to the previous Egypt-Israel armistice lines, and advocates such changes as would ensure Israel's security and control of its navigation in the Straits of Tiran...
...Arabs made their move at 4:20 a.m. as the sprawling Olympic Village (see map) lay quiet and sleeping in the predawn darkness. Two telephone linemen saw a group of young men wearing sporty clothes and carrying athletic equipment scale the 6 2/7-ft. fence surrounding the village. It was a fairly common occurrence; many of the Olympic athletes had broken training to enjoy a night on the town, and then scaled the fence to re-enter the compound. But once out of sight, the Arab group stopped to blacken their faces with charcoal or put on hoods, and pull weapons...
When the dispute began, few students could even locate Angola on a map. But the PALC organizers used a carefully orchestrated series of tactics to rally support for their cause...
Israel's proposal provides for withdrawal from large areas of Egypt-more in fact than the Israelis have ever before indicated they might be willing to give up. It would hand back to Egypt more than two-thirds of the Sinai peninsula (see map), restoring the 1949 Israeli-Egyptian armistice line along much of the northern border. Israel would keep the Gaza Strip and a large share of the mountainous southern Sinai, in a triangle bordering the Gulf of Aqaba from Elath to Sharm el Sheikh. At least as the Israelis envisioned it, the Egyptian portion of the Sinai...
...making their offer (and even drawing a map, which they had always insisted they would do only after face-to-face negotiations), the Israelis had neatly put the onus of response back on Sadat. The offer was far from meeting his stated demand that Egypt must regain sovereignty over all of its territory before a peace agreement can be concluded, and it was questionable whether Sadat could even negotiate on the basis of Israel's proposal and survive in power. But by making the proposal, the Israeli government had probably gone about as far as it could without seriously...