Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sadat's Suez plan calls for the Israelis to withdraw from their fortified Bar-Lev Line to new positions farther back in the desert along a line from just east of the Mediterranean coastal town of El Arish to Ras Mohammed, at the extreme southern tip of the Sinai peninsula just west of Sharm el Sheikh (see map). Once the withdrawal had been accomplished, Egyptians would occupy the area and begin the laborious business of clearing the waterway (see box, page...
Located at the tip of the Sinai Peninsula and commanding the passage to the Gulf of Aqaba, Sharm el Sheikh is sand-blown, sunbaked and heavy with symbolism and strategic significance. It played a major part in the events leading to the Six-Day War. At that time, Gamal Abdel Nasser threatened that Egyptian artillery at Sharm el Sheikh would sink any ship that ventured into the narrow Straits of Tiran en route to the Israeli port of Eilat, 130 miles to the north, which handles all of Israel's oil imports. Soon afterward, Israeli paratroopers and amphibious forces...
...small size and isolation of West Potomac Park have caused problems. It is on a small peninsula with only three access routes, all of which could easily be blocked by police...
...town is on the go. San Francisco is different. Tall towers, local boosters insist, tend to destroy the city's special charm. They can block long views over pastel-colored houses and the sparkling bay, disrupt the roller-coaster sequence of hills and valleys. Still, as a peninsula city, San Francisco has nowhere to expand but up. It now bristles with skyscrapers, 21 of them built in the past five years. Gloomy citizens fear that the city will soon be "Manhattanized," that it will become a senseless jumble of bleak, man-made canyons...
Died. Lieut. General Ali Ali Amer, 64, chief of the Egyptian armed forces during the disastrous 1956 Sinai defeat at the hands of Israel; of a heart attack; in Alexandria, Egypt. Despite that debacle, during which Israeli troops routed his forces on the desert peninsula in less than a week, Amer remained in favor with Egypt's President Nasser, was named chief of staff in 1959, and head of the Arab unified military command in 1964, a position he retained until his retirement in 1968, after...