Word: reverting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talks, fittingly, were held at Sharm el Sheikh (renamed Ofira by the Israelis), the port city near the southern tip of the last stretch of the Sinai that is due to revert to Egyptian sovereignty next April. Each leader brought along an entourage: Begin's included Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon; Sadat was aided by Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan...
Under the terms of the agreement--described by one University official as "very, very complex,"--half the estate will be turned over to the University on the death of either Mr. or Mrs. Nickerson, and the other half will revert to Harvard when the other dies...
Nickerson, whose real estate philosophy centered on finding prospects that could be improved and sold at a high return said that half the income from the estate would go to his direct heirs while they remained alive, and on their deaths the principal would revert entirely to the Divinity School...
...Popemobile circled St. Peter's Square through a narrow lane formed by low wooden barricades. The crowd cheered and waved white-and-gold papal flags. In the speech that was to conclude the audience, the Pope intended to revert...
...ailing George Habash, had taken a step toward a more moderate strategy. The P.F.L.P., after a seven-year absence, rejoined the governing executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization at its meeting in Damascus. TIME also learned that Habash, who had previously insisted that all of Israel must revert to a Palestinian state, would now accept "a Palestine" on the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip-at least "as a first step." The shift in strategy has not been announced by Habash. It is a quiet arrangement worked out within the P.F.L.P., after a great deal of argument...