Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Haig was heartened by one important concession from Sadat: if, as expected, the United Nations Security Council does not approve an international peace-keeping force to patrol the Sinai Peninsula after Israel completes its withdrawal next year, U.S. troops will be permititted to help patrol the area. Haig assured Sadat that the American troops ould make up no more than half of the 2,000-to 4,000-man force and would not be deployed elsewhere in the Middle East...
...party's electoral victory: I received an overwhelming vote of confidence. This indicated to me that I have learned what the people want-political stability, sustained economic growth and the ability to maintain peace on the Korean peninsula...
...little more than a year's time, Israel will transfer to full Egyptian sovereignty the remaining third of the wedge-shaped 23,622 sq.mi. Sinai Peninsula that it has occupied since the Six-Day War of June 1967* That final withdrawal, which must be completed by April 25,1982, is already making waves. Last week Israeli settlers in the area blocked local roads in protest, while sympathizers in Jerusalem threatened to demonstrate in front of Prime Minister Menachem Begin's office. In Washington, meanwhile, Secretary of State Alexander Haig revived a controversial proposal that could station more than...
...Korean peninsula too has been receiving close, though more subtle, attention from Soviet military planners. For decades North Korea has performed a delicate balancing act between its giant neighbors, China and the Soviet Union, repeatedly promising each that it would not allow the other to establish a base on North Korean territory. For the past two years, however, North Korea has allowed Soviet merchant ships and tankers to use its year-round port of Najin and from there to transport petroleum and other supplies by rail to Vladivostok when that city's harbor is closed...
...gateway between the Pacific and the Indian Ocean-and the choke point through which passes virtually all of the Middle Eastern oil on which Japan's economy depends-is the Strait of Malacca, a channel 30 miles wide at its narrowest point, between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Here too Soviet naval activity has been on the rise, in both obvious and not-so-obvious ways. Soviet destroyers, cruisers and diesel-powered, torpedo-firing Foxtrot submarines have been passing through the strait at the rate of about six a month, while nuclear-powered Echo-class...