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...meeting in Cairo next week, the two sides will continue to work on a formula for a Sinai agreement. In exchange for the right to retain their settlements and military installations in Sinai, the Israelis have already offered the Egyptians an equivalent amount of territory in Israel's Negev desert...
...Israelis not only have restored some of the water collection systems left by the ancient Nabateans in the Negev desert, but are letting the runoff nourish flourishing orchards of almond and pistachio trees. Another strategy for making the Negev bloom: drip irrigation systems that feed small amounts of water directly to the roots of plants with the help of computer monitors...
Though the U.N. conference featured an Arab-led walkout during the Israeli delegate's Negev report and other outbursts of rudeness and rancor, the Nairobi proceedings made some encouraging progress. Scientists presented many carefully prepared technical analyses of desertification and ways to combat it. The U.S. pitched in with an offer to train a cadre of 1,000 Peace Corps volunteers for antidesertification work. Before the delegates disband this week, they are expected to adopt a 15-point plan that calls for a worldwide effort against the deserts' encroachment with everything from the planting of new vegetation...
...investigation by a team of correspondents, TIME has learned that the Scheersberg As voyage from Antwerp was part of a complex plot concocted by Israeli intelligence agents. Its purpose: to disguise a secret Israeli purchase of much-needed uranium for its French-built nuclear reactor at Dimona in the Negev Desert; an overt purchase might have pushed the Soviet Union into supplying nuclear arms to the Arab states. The Scheersberg A, which is still in service as a tramp steamer under the name Kerkyra, was secretly owned at the time of the uranium caper by the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad...
Native ingenuity extends on an even larger scale. Agricultural feats, particularly in the southern Negev desert, have made Israel nearly self-sufficient in food and a leading exporter of fruits and vegetables to Western Europe. A global demand is growing for space-age military and communications hardware made in Israel. Helped by its continuing policy of "creeping devaluation"-just last month the pound inched down 2% to 8.9 to the dollar-Israel increased its exports $800 million last year, helping cut the trade deficit to $3.5 billion...