Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Major General Edson L.M. Burns of Canada, found itself in rare-unanimity. By vote of 11 to 0 (the U.S. and Russia both voting aye), the council called on Israel and Egypt to work out something with General Burns "forthwith," and endorsed his idea of creating a border neutral zone and raising a barbed wire barricade along the Gaza line to keep the troops apart...
Both Israel and Egypt promised at once to cooperate, though each has an objection of its own. The Israelis think the fence is fine, because it would help stop unlawful border crossings, but they dislike a demilitarized zone because many f their new farm settlements run right up to the line. Egypt's Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser likes the border buffer zone (he himself proposed it three months ago), but objects to building any border barriers because that might imply permanent acceptance of the frontier line drawn after the 1949 Palestine war. Technically, in Egypt's eyes, Israel...
...Republic. After that, the choir ran through its religious repertory, from a semi-spiritual (Listen to the Lambs All A-Cryin') to Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. The audience demanded six encores. One choir rehearsal became a concert for 2,000 refugees from Germany's Soviet zone, who were moved to tears. Wrote Berlin's Telegraf: "This was not only music, but the building of a human bridge...
...rainy southern district of Indo-China in 1947, De Latour forgot that he was no longer in the desert, and is said to have defined his strategy in a single, gruff directive: "We'll cut off the bastards' water supply." In 1950, took charge of the combat zone in North Viet Nam but was stricken with dysentery, invalided home...
...visited the Soviet zone of Germany and was lionized there, wrote a letter of praise for an old friend, now a Soviet literary commissar, and finally settled near Zurich, Switzerland...