Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miles away, villagers desert quiet country lanes for tile-or thatch-roofed cottages. And a few miles beyond that, perhaps an hour's drive from the teeming capital and its 6.5 million people, U.S. and South Korean soldiers anxiously scan the dark, austere terrain of the Demilitarized Zone. All along the 150-mile-long DMZ, from concrete-hardened bunkers or on tense patrols, they watch through the night for infiltrators, saboteurs or commandos from the Communist North...
...effect that recent Israeli troop withdrawals in Sinai were not what they seemed to be. At the end of Ford's meeting with Sadat, the Israelis, as a token of their interest in peace, announced that they were thinning out their 7,000 troops in the Limited Forces Zone in the Sinai. As it turned out, the Israelis had earlier reduced their forces to about 3,500; in some sectors, military units had never been brought up to the strength allowed under the 1974 disengagement agreement. Washington was aware of this fact from satellite reconnaissance, but according to Cairo...
...voluntarily pulling back their forces in the Sinai, the Israelis hoped to counter the propaganda advantages that Sadat gained by reopening the canal. They took out from the limited-forces zone half the 7,000 men and 30 tanks allowed under the disengagement agreement, and withdrew artillery and missiles from canal range. To dramatize the move, Defense Minister Shimon Peres last week took foreign newsmen on a tour of the desert, where they observed the withdrawal of one sandchurning platoon of ten tanks...
After 22 years of "temporary" truce, the Demilitarized Zone that partitions Korea has become, among other things, a bird sanctuary. The gigantic white-plumed Manchurian crane, an exotic type of which only 30 specimens are known to exist, now winters in the barbed-wire-lined...
Vischer proposes that the Vatican think about renouncing its political sovereignty, which was established by a 1929 treaty with Italy, and instead set itself up as some sort of "extraterritorial zone secured by international guarantees." Most probably, the net effect of the Vischer proposal will be to reaffirm Pope Paul's stated position that any idea that the Roman Catholic Church might some day join the World Council is merely "a hypothesis...