Word: sheikhs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Syria could help finance a Disney World on the Golan Heights, and Iraq and Algeria face each other in a super soccer stadium at Sharm el Sheikh. Yassir Arafat could retire on a pension, Anwar Sadat take a job as headwaiter in a kosher restaurant, and Colonel Gaddafi mount his white camel and ride off into the desert forever...
...level of all are the 1,000,000 Arabs in the occupied territories. Their fate is at the very core of the Israeli dilemma today. So far, Israel has formally annexed only the 19 sq. mi. (and 70,000 inhabitants) of East Jerusalem; but the Golan Heights, Sharm el Sheikh at the tip of the Sinai Peninsula and the access road along the Gulf of Aqaba have also been annexed in everything but name. The government's strategy is to create an interlocking economy between Israel and the territories, and today 30% of the territories' labor force crosses...
...have strong popular backing for her increasingly militant stand. A survey published last week by the Institute for Applied Social Research in Jerusalem noted that 58% of Israeli adults opposed concessions on the West Bank (v. 41% a year ago). Other findings: 96% want to keep Sharm el Sheikh and 93% the Golan Heights; 63% are prepared to give up part of the Sinai Desert in return for a peace settlement, but 66% feel that the Gaza Strip, formerly held by Egypt, is not negotiable...
...moment, the election of Sheikh Mujib has not changed Bangladesh's position on the prisoners, while the framing of a new constitution for Pakistan was completed last week. The old constitution had still provided for the existence of East Pakistan, a provision which the Bengalis opposed...
...weeks ago, a special envoy from India arrived in Dacca, the capital of Bangladesh, to discuss the POW issue with Sheikh Mujibur. The New Delhi Statesman reported that the envoy was "seeking to end the stalemate in the POW issue," adding that he would have to go Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, after concluding his talks with Sheikh Mujibur...