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...buffer zone separating the two sides now averages only six miles and narrows to as little as two miles. It would be considerably widened to an average width of 30 miles. This would greatly reduce the threat of accidental clashes between the two armies. Israel would pull back approximately 25 to 30 miles from its present "Blue Line," and Israeli guns would be 25 to 45 miles from the Suez Canal, out of range of Egypt's vital waterway and the new settlements President Sadat plans to establish on its banks. The lines would be drawn, however, so that...
...already strained when Sadat succeeded Gamal Abdel Nasser as President in 1970. Since then it has got worse. One of the problems is geographic: though vast in area, Egypt is mostly desert. Fully 96% of its population is jammed into a narrow green belt averaging seven miles in width and 500 miles long in the Nile Valley. Another problem is the population itself, which is growing at a million per year despite belated efforts to control...
...weakness has been revealed. He was ready to give up under the pressure of the chant. He is no committed revolutionary. When Sam finally addresses the opaque petition window, his ominous "petition for more space" becomes a simple request to increase his sleeping area by one foot in width and one foot in length to the maximum allowed by law. He complains, "I expend so much physical and psychic energy pushing against people and limits that I am always too tired to do quickly the things I need and want to do." The window replies. "True for everyone, Petition denied...
...Between the milltary zones a buffer zone varying in width from 1.3 miles to 3.7 miles will be manned by 1,250 United Nations troops. They will be charged with maintaining the cease-fire and seeing that it is "scrupulously observed." Along with this U.N. Disengagement Observer Force, 30,000 or more Syrian refugees will be allowed to return to their land; Syrian civilian administrators will run the buffer zone...
...priority program, as a result, is to rebuild its shattered cities and give the people some early measure of relief. But Sadat has even more ambitious projects for revitalizing the country. In essence, the President wants to free Egyptians from their centuries-old dependence on a narrow (average width: seven miles), 500-mile-long green belt on each side of the Nile River valley. The completion of the Aswan High Dam, with its water control and vastly increased production of electricity, will make that possible...