Word: settlements
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...some Israelis to stop the final phase of the government's withdrawal from the Sinai next April, when this northern strip of the desert is scheduled to revert to Egypt under the terms of the Camp David peace accords. The focus of the campaign is Yamit, an Israeli settlement of 2,500 situated on a strand of sand beside the Mediterranean. Settled six years ago, Yamit even now is no bigger than a college campus. Behind a 110-ft. wire-mesh antiterrorist fence that looks incongruous in such a peaceful setting, Yamit's residents have skillfully managed...
...Settlement will be a painstaking and very expensive process. Only three people have been hired who can simultaneously translate the proceedings into English and Farsi. They will have to be parceled out among the 800 individual cases that companies with more than $250,000 in claims apiece are expected to submit. Moreover, one U.S. official reports that other Farsi translators are charging up to $200 for each double-spaced page of legal papers...
LECTURE: "New Discoveries in Egyptian and Philistine Cultures: The Period of the Exodus and the Israelite Settlement"; Trude Dothan; Lown Auditorium; Wednesday...
...follow his course." Mubarak affirmed Egypt's support of the peace treaty with Israel, assured his countrymen that the Israelis would keep their promise to withdraw from the easternmost portion of the Sinai by next April, and promised to work for a comprehensive Middle East settlement. He defended the loyalty of the armed forces and warned his adversaries that if they broke the law they would be dealt with "unmercifully." "There is no difference between Muslim and Christian," he declared. "We are all of the same caravan. Let us always ask what we can give to Egypt, not what...
Such stubborn determination leaves Moscow faced with the prospect of an open-ended drain on its resources and ongoing embarrassment in its foreign policy. It also presents the U.S. with a dilemma. Should the U.S., in exchange for a Soviet pullout, press for a diplomatic settlement that might involve the formal recognition of Karmal's puppet regime and an end to outside support for the mujahedin? Or should Washington keep the covert military heat on and insist on unconditional withdrawal...