Word: soils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Begin then outlined his previous position on the Sinai, emphasizing his most disturbing point, that the Israeli settlements on Egyptian soil were a necessary buffer between Gaza and Egypt. He next addressed the issue of a separate agreement with Egypt, to the exclusion of the Palestinians, Jordanians and Syrians. Begin believed that an agreement on the Sinai might come first, with a later accord on "Judea and Samaria." (Begin always referred to the West Bank by the biblical names, I assume to engender the notion that this was the promised land that God himself had given the Jews...
...accepted a red-and-white sash imprinted with the Cedar of Lebanon as the emblem of his office, Gemayel last week indicated that he perceived the dangers. "A single concern grips us now," he said. "This is to stop the vicious cycle of bloody violence on Lebanon's soil.'' -By Russ Hoyle. Reported by William Stewart/Beirut
...moment, the traumatic divorce has silenced Schmidt's left-wing critics. Writers and intellectuals who opposed the Social Democratic leadership's decision to accept NATO's installation of cruise and Pershing II nuclear missiles on West German soil next year are again rallying around the party. Author Günter Grass and his wife have for the first time become card-carrying members of the S.P.D. because they did not believe in being schönwetter (fairweather) socialists...
...that once a section of pipeline is completed and buried, typically to a minimum depth of 42 in., the surface is reseeded and restored for use as range or cropland the following season. Maintenance teams will be permanently based along the lines to inspect them periodically and guard against soil erosion by practicing terracing and other soil-conservation techniques. Says Robert Landers, a construction supervisor on the Trailblazer project: "We bury and hide our pipe with about the same care the Egyptians took in burying their pharaohs." Now the only thing the pipeline companies have to worry about is whether...
...believe that the U.S. has a special obligation to come to the Philippines' assistance because the U.S. has two key bases on your soil...