Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resemble an all-consuming vortex. Instead, war, specifically Winston Churchill's ill-fated Gallipoli campaign into Ottoman Turkey, waits patiently at the end of the film. For Gallipoli concerns getting to the front and the adventures en route as much as the conflict on the 60-mile-long Turkish peninsula...
...three countries to meet for a total of 35 days stretched over five sessions between Oct. 21 and Jan. 15. The aim: to reach an agreement between Egypt and Israel, preferably before next April 26, the day on which Israel is scheduled to complete its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula...
...show of support was designed, in part, to forestall any chance that Belize, nestled between Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and Guatemala, might run into serious trouble even before it got a chance to enjoy its new status. Guatemala's hostile military regime has reasserted claims to the area dating back to an 1859 boundary treaty with Britain. In talks with Guatemalan officials earlier this year, Britain agreed to give Guatemala access to the Caribbean through Belize, but the negotiations subsequently broke down. Guatemala closed its borders with Belize and severed consular relations with Britain...
Strobe Talbott totally ignores the fact that in its quest for peace Israel is returning to Egypt the Sinai Peninsula, which contains oilfields that Israel developed and that could have made it energy independent...
...Middle East conflict is not Israel's occupation of the West Bank but the Arab refusal to recognize Israel. Only one moderate Arab leader, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, has had the courage to proclaim "no more war." For that he received the strategic Sinai Peninsula. Israel is still waiting for another farsighted Arab statesman who is able to discuss the West Bank...