Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...situation was beginning to improve professionally, too. To be sure, the Israeli-Egyptian cease-fire remained as tenuous as ever, and Israel continued to accuse the Egyptians of violating the agreement that barred the introduction of new weapons into the 32-mile-wide strip along either side of the Suez. But the truce was more than two weeks old, and it had not been seriously broken by gunfire along the canal. Even more important, both Israel and Egypt quietly began to formulate their bargaining positions. Unless an unforeseen hitch developed, both Israel and Egypt expected the talks to begin this...
...Arab attacks, the Israelis are seriously considering large territorial settlements. If the areas involved were demilitarized, they might return almost all the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt, give back much of the Golan Heights to Syria, create a Palestinian state on the Israeli-occupied West Bank and in the Gaza Strip, and establish Jerusalem as a jointly managed united city in which Arab residents would administer their own municipal affairs. But if the Arabs are not willing to bargain on a final peaceful settlement, Israel's offer will likely be far less liberal in giving up occupied areas...
...plan, noted that Israel agreed, as part of a peace settlement, to 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...
...intended to fight. Its protection lay in international law or, in a crisis, possible help from elsewhere. Brigadier General John W. Harrell Jr., the Air Force commander in South Korea, was informed of Bucher's mission in advance and asked the Navy if planes should be kept on "strip alert" for a possible rescue operation; the Navy was not interested. While Pueblo was at sea, North Korea sent an assassination team to Seoul with President Chung Hee Park as the target. This graphic signal of Pyongyang's mood did not make the Navy any more concerned about Pueblo...
Aggressive Prudery. Meredith was divided, above all, on the subject of sex. Like every Victorian author, he suffered, in Pritchett's words, "from the aggressive prudery of his readers." Much as he might have liked to strip down to bare revelations, Meredith, a tailor's son to the end, settled for a costume change, etherealizing passion and abstracting love into a distant, chaste project. Still, it can be argued that no novelist of the 19th century had more to tell about the destructive and self-destructive impulses that coexist with love...