Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week, aimed at Palestinian camps in the south). Finally a compromise was worked out: Ghanem was ordered on leave. He was replaced by Brigadier General Hanna Said, a Maronite officer less objectionable to Moslems, who was quickly promoted. Two thousand soldiers were then ordered to set up a buffer zone between battling forces without entering either Tripoli or Zgharta, which might provoke an encounter...
...Lice area, which is situated at the juncture of two shifting rock plates, is one of three Turkish regions prone to earthquakes. Even more vulnerable than Lice are towns along the Anatolian fault, which cuts horizontally across the northern tier of Turkey. The third seismic zone is in the west, in Turkey's Aegean provinces. Since 1903 earthquakes have caused more than 64,000 deaths in these three regions...
...movie was shot, it sometimes seemed that the wrong folk were behind bars. During a between-scenes football game that included Gould, Caan and a stunt man, Gould caught a long pass from his co-star and celebrated by doffing his clothes and leaping around the end zone. "The prison guards," observed Caan, "didn't seem to understand...
...Lima was the world economy, the conferees spent a great deal of time on politics, mostly with a decidedly anti-American cast. Such "nonaligned" nations as North Korea and North Viet Nam were welcomed as full members of the conference. So was Panama, where U.S. control of the Canal Zone drew the sympathy of the delegates. Excluded from participation were South Korea and the Philippines, apparently because both governments permit American troops on their soil...
TROOP SHIFTS. Israel will give up the strategic Giddi and Mitla passes, which will become part of a demilitarized buffer zone patrolled by the U.N. Emergency Force. Israeli troops will move from twelve to 30 miles eastward; the Egyptians will advance two to nine miles eastward. The buffer zone between them will thus be greatly widened, reducing the chances of an accidental clash. Israel, however, will retain mountains overlooking the eastern part of the two passes, the large Bir Gifgafa airbase just northeast of the Giddi Pass, and the Umm Khisheib electronic monitoring station northwest of the Giddi Pass...