Word: negev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that they have already lined up enough customers to start thinking about expanding the line's capacity. Some oil from Egyptian-developed fields in the Western Sinai, which was taken by Israel in the 1967 war, may be funneled into the pipeline. Test drilling is planned for the Negev Desert this year, and an offshore oil rig is now on its way to the Gulf of Suez to begin exploratory operations. A subsidiary of Denver's King Resources Co. surveyed the Sinai for Israel, and company officials reported recently that the area has enormous potential...
...that way. Half a million chose or were forced into exile, including virtually all the educated, urbanized Arabs; 156,000 stayed behind, mostly unlettered villagers. With a birth rate three times that of Israel's Jewish population, the Arab numbers have doubled. Including 30,000 Bedouins of the Negev Desert and 30,000 Druse, one of every eight Israelis is now an Arab. (The 1,000,000 Arabs in the occupied territories do not have citizenship...