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Word: sheikhs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lines during a women's Zionist meeting in Tel Aviv last week, indicating that her country aims to retain some key areas. "The Americans know very well how much we can concede," said Mrs. Meir. "They know we cannot concede the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem or Sharm el Sheikh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Inching Closer to Peace | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

SINAI: To the line from El Arish near the Mediterranean to Sharm el Sheikh at the juncture of the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea. Israel would insist on a presence at Sharm el Sheikh, where it is developing a sizable community, to protect passage to Eilat. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan will fight for mutual withdrawal of both Israel and Egypt from the banks of the Suez Canal. Should the Israelis consent to a unilateral withdrawal of ten to twelve miles from the canal, however, they may insist on a proviso that if one Egyptian soldier crosses the canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Where Israel Draws the Line | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

...Battlefields. The biggest adventure of a border tour occurs along the 170-mile road from Eilat to Sharm el Sheikh at the confluence of the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea. All but about 50 miles of the highway have been completed; the immense effort being expended cannot be for any other purpose than to keep a permanent Israeli presence on the western side of the Gulf of Aqaba. When the road is finished, Israeli tourists will speed in three hours through the pink and purple Sinai mountains that it took commandos in 1956 three days to cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Settling in Along the Border | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

...Sharm el Sheikh the beginnings of another tourist mecca are already in place. For $14 a night one can get an air-conditioned room in an 80-bed motel, watch movies and go scuba diving. Already along another road to Sharm el Sheikh through the Mitla Pass, holidaymakers from Tel Aviv can take a five-day "See the Sinai Battlefields" tour for $98.60. Egged, Israels' biggest bus line, is now planning a 300-bed motel in Sinai at a cost of $500,000. "Why not?" asks an Egged spokesman. "The government has agreed to a 49-year lease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Settling in Along the Border | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

...withdraw from occupied Arab territory. However, it did not stipulate, as Mrs. Meir insisted it should, that the withdrawal be to "secure and agreed borders," which Israel privately argues must include several pieces of occupied territory: a strip of land along the Gulf of Aqaba to Sharm el Sheikh, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, and all of Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Shadow Over the Cease-Fire | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

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