Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brian W. Bell, the finance officer for the holding company of the Rainier Corporation, said yesterday, "We only have two very small loans in South Africa." He added that the corporation did not plan to withdraw these loans or increase its loans to South Africa in the near future...
...market. ?Egypt will drop its demand for an Egyptian liaison office in Gaza and its insistence that Gaza Palestinians have an implied priority over West Bank Palestinians in achieving autonomy. These two matters will be dealt with in the next stage of Egyptian-Israeli negotiations. ? Israel will withdraw from the western half of the Sinai within nine months and will do so in stages, as Sadat had requested. In return, Cairo will agree to exchange ambassadors with Jerusalem one month after that phase of the military withdrawal is completed...
...British withdraw. The chief Zionist groups proclaim the new state of Israel, occupying 5,500 square miles of Palestine granted them by the U.N. Next day, troops from seven Arab states invade Palestine...
...Operating under a secret pact with Britain and France, Israeli armies overrun the Sinai Peninsula. Franco-British forces move in to "protect" the Suez Canal. Under U.S. and Soviet pressure, Britain and France soon withdraw, and Israel pulls out nearly a year later. A U.N. force is installed to guard the Egyptian-Israeli border...
...After convincing the U.N. that it should withdraw its force from the Sinai, Egypt blockades the Gulf of Aqaba, closing a key Israeli shipping route, and moves its troops to the Israeli border...