Word: ras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Palestinian self-government envisaged by Israel. But he readily agreed to the resumption of negotiations. He urged the U.S. to try to include the P.L.O. in the talks but received no support. He accepted Reagan's strategic-consensus plans and allowed the U.S. to expand the Egyptian airbase at Ras Banas on the Red Sea for possible use by the Rapid Deployment Force. As the pressures mounted at home, Sadat grew almost desperate for some real progress in this stage of Camp David, but he could find no way to achieve...
Though Reagan has promised to continue the Camp David peace process, he faces trouble with Egypt over American use of a military base at Ras Banas on the Red Sea. The U.S. wants President Anwar Sadat to sign a formal agreement allowing American access, but Sadat is reluctant to do so for fear of stirring up Egyptian opposition. He has warned the U.S. against taking too stern a line...
Today the same people incarnate modern Arab lore emerging from the magic elixir of oil. The oil price boom in 1973 began barely two years after seven gulf emirates-Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al Qaiwain, Ras al Khaimah and Fujairah-set aside tribal quarrels to form a loose federation. The cornucopia of oil money has yielded perhaps the highest per capita income in the world for Emirates citizens (in excess of $100,000 a year) and created a cradle-to-grave welfare state. But the Emirates face the most serious population imbalance in the region: of a population...
...signing of the Camp David agreement, Israel removed the last of its troops and weaponry from the western two-thirds of the desert peninsula. For the next two years, until the final third of Sinai is returned to Egyptian control, the Israelis will be stationed east of the Ras Muhammad-El Arish interim line. No longer will Israeli forces command the strategic desert passes of Mitla and Giddi, which became the graveyard of Egyptian armor in 1967. With memories of the Six-Day War in mind, Israel's Chief of Staff, General Rafael Eitan, told his troops last week...