Word: missioners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years of Israeli occupation of the peninsula have heightened the Egyptians' sense of loss. As a "last mission," President Anwar Sadat dreams of building a shrine on Mount Sinai at which Christians, Jews and Muslims can pray together. And now that Israel has agreed in principle to withdraw, Egyptian planners are busy drawing up ambitious schemes for transforming the Sinai into a rich national asset. In addition to oil exploration, mining and tourism, the government has plans for reclaiming 700,000 acres of land in the northwestern Sinai by piping in water from the Nile...
...When the mission ended, South Africa had at least bought some time for itself. Backing away from earlier threats that they would not oppose economic sanctions, the Big Five envoys now agreed that they would veto any such proposal put to the U.N. Security Council until Pretoria's internal settlement is proved beyond doubt to be a sham. The Western powers hope eventually to persuade South Africa to accept a U.N.-supervised vote that the Third World countries could also consider legitimate. But, as one Western diplomat ruefully admitted as he left Pretoria last week: "The talks have left...
...maintained the "advisory" U.S. military mission in Managua...
...military mission arrived in 1950 to help administer military aid and advise the National Guard. From 1946 to 1976 the Somozas received more than $29 million in direct aid through Military Assistance Programs, as well as more than $300 million in "economic" aid, much of which has been used to buy military equipment from the U.S. and other countries (particularly Israel in recent years...
...delegates will also discuss the future of the American monitoring mission in the Sinai and the planned U.S. replacement of Israeli airfields in the Sinai with two new bases in Israel's Negev Desert. One possible sticking point in the talks concerns Israeli oil installations in the Sinai. The Israelis may seek compensation for these installations; at the very least, they will ask for a guarantee from Egypt to sell oil to Israel or a promise to set up a joint enterprise for exploring the Sinai oilfields. The Egyptians will seek to avoid any such special arrangements...