Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More is at stake than just Korea, however, as important as it is to Asian stability. The prospect of a U.S. withdrawal alarms Japan, which fears instability in the Korean peninsula, the traditional invasion route to the Japanese home islands. China fears that too precipitate a U.S. retreat from Asia would encourage aggressive Russian moves. The general's warning can only add to these apprehensions...
...FIGHTING A MAJOR CONVENTIONAL WAR: Says Brown: "We cannot ignore the possibility of renewed warfare on the Korean peninsula or the need to support the Republic of Korea in the event of an attack." In Western Europe, there is growing concern that NATO'S conventional forces are not capable of slowing and then repelling a nonnuclear invasion by the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact nations. In Brussels this week, Brown is expected to emphasize, as Carter did last week, that NATO must improve its combat readiness and upgrade the training and equipment of its forces. "The main message I'll take...
...Almost all Asian leaders," Fukuda told TIME Tokyo Bureau Chief William Stewart, "will be disturbed if the U.S. disrupts the basic tenor of its Asian policy. They have asked me to convey their concern." Fukuda is especially chary of "any disruption of the delicate balance offerees on the Korean peninsula. I plan to advise President Carter very strongly about this...
Bounded by the Mediterranean and Red seas and the gulfs of Aqaba and Suez, the Sinai peninsula is a generally desolate stretch of sand dunes and granite mountains that is twice the size of Maryland. The desert is more hospitable to scorpions and camels than to men. Apart from Bedouins who wander the dunes and camp in the scattered oases, and soldiers who cautiously patrol old battlefields, Sinai's inhabitants hug the coastlines. Yet for all the peninsula's vast emptiness and apparent lack of natural wealth, Israel appears to be determined to hold on to a third...
...southern end of the peninsula, the deserted Arab fishing village of El Tur is being actively exploited for what have proved to be rich oil reserves. Despite a public declaration from Washington last week that such activity is illegal, Israel is determinedly searching for oil to replace what it lost a year ago when the Abu Rudeis fields to the north were handed back to Egypt. Exploration has already led to conflicts, since other oil teams under Egyptian contracts are also working there. Israeli naval crews last fall shot at equipment owned by Amoco to keep that American company from...