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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to returning all of the 154-sq.-mi. bulge captured in the October war, Israel will also surrender roughly 30 sq. mi. of Syrian territory captured during the Six-Day War of 1967, including Quneitra and the villages of Rafid and Butmiya. Some of this land behind the "purple line" (named for its usual color on Israeli military maps) had been planted hi potato fields and apple orchards. The surrender of the territory marks the first time that Israel has ever been persuaded to give up land worked by its settlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Miracle Worker Does It Again | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

...Iain Ross, a white British citizen born in Uganda, began turning his job over to a black man. For six years Ross had been chief warden of the Kidepo Valley National Park, 500 sq. mi. of wilderness near the border of Sudan and Kenya. Animals roam free there under park protection, but are in danger from poachers. Outside the park, a conflict splutters and periodically burns between Uganda and Tanzania, like the brushfires that menace the park itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Uganda Exodus | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

Among the nine other national pavilions, the $3 million, 62,000-sq.-ft. Soviet building is the most popular. The building is a visual delight, from the entrance, prefaced by pools, fountains and water plants, to a riverfront restaurant, supervised by a chef who presides over the best chicken Kiev this side of Leningrad. It has huge, non-Stakhanovite art montages, three movie theaters, an exhibition of Armenian archaeological artifacts and, in keeping with Expo's theme, ingenious models of air-and water-purification systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: A Place in the Sun | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

...Sinai desert of Egypt. No armies are trapped there to add urgency to negotiations; rather, there are civilian settlers on both sides, which makes discussions more complicated. Both nations, moreover, have made seemingly irreconcilable demands. Syria insists that Israel, as a first step, return all of the 154-sq.-mi. "bulge" that it captured in the October war along with portions of Syrian territory captured in 1967, including Quneitra, the principal settlement of the Golan. Damascus also demands a timetable for the return of all territory it lost in the Six-Day War -a total of 772 sq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Aboard Dr. Henry's Shuttle | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...after World War II it became the object of a prolonged tug of war between Italy and Yugoslavia, whose partisans had participated in the Allied capture of the region. In 1954, however, a practical accommodation was reached. Italy was granted provisional control over the northern section of the 287-sq.-mi. territory. Called Zone A, it included the city of Trieste (pop. 270,000), which is predominantly Italian but has a large Slovene minority. The rest of the area, Zone B, was kept provisionally under Yugoslav control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRONTIERS: Zone Defense | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

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