Word: mapping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they are flexing this growing muscle. Early this month, a group of 28 key conservatives-members of Congress, business executives, party activists and even a labor representative-met at a resort on Maryland's Eastern Shore to map out strategy leading up to 1976. They did not agree on a blueprint for action, but as former USIA Director Frank Shakespeare put it, "You could see ideas fermenting there, people considering things they would have considered heretical two or three years ago, asking what is the right thing to do with respect to the country and conservative principles." Said...
...usual, the Secretary interjected chunks of humor into the discussions. Staring at a map of Sinai on a Jerusalem conference-room wall, Kissinger asked jokingly, "What did you put that map up for? I don't intend to talk about Sinai." At a dinner with Israeli officials he described Chief of Staff Mordechai Gur as a general "who displays great affection for any piece of territory possessing any elevation whatsoever." Referring to three promontories on the Golan Heights that Israel insisted on controlling in the first stage of disengagement talks with Syria, Kissinger told...
...balance the tangibles of territory against the intangibles of recognition and the desire for peace." Israel's basic diplomatic strategy was that it would only give "a piece of land for a piece of peace," and thus it would not surrender any more of the Sinai (see map following page) without getting clear-cut assurances of Egypt's peaceful intentions from President Anwar Sadat...
Evan swung his pointer across a map board, from the Mitla through the desert to the Giddi Pass 30 miles north. "If we stay in this area," he said, "we can conduct a good defensive operation without putting the whole army in." By controlling the passes, he said, the Israelis have a 7-to-l manpower advantage over the Egyptians. The Mitla Pass outpost seemed lightly manned. Only a few squads of soldiers were camped amidst the crushed granite and sand bars. "Why don't we see any tanks or artillery?" the general was asked. He smiled. "This...
...strife-torn island of Cyprus was hit by yet another crisis last week. As hundreds of cheering Turkish Cypriots listened over loudspeakers in Nicosia, their acknowledged political leader, Rauf Denktas., announced the formation of a separate federal state in the Turkish-occupied northern sector (see map). Denktas, 51, who will head up the new state, offered to join with Greek Cypriots in a federation if they should choose to form a similar state. But he flatly declared that "there is no possibility of living together with the Greek-Cypriot co-founders of the Republic of Cyprus." A 50-member constituent...