Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balked, however, on a key issue: the precise status of the six-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone. Hanoi, which has consistently refused to view Viet Nam as two nations, wanted free military movement through this "temporary" buffer zone. South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu, on the other hand, claims that the DMZ is a permanent political border for his sovereign nation. It was largely at Thieu's insistence that the U.S. had reopened discussion on this subject, which had purposely been left vague in the nine-point agreement announced by Kissinger in October. Now, on orders from...
...Buffer Zone. Dayan's concept in northern Sinai is to build up the area with Israeli settlements, not only to provide needed Israeli housing but also to make Egyptian attack impossible. He contends that the original settlement can be stretched to create a buffer zone, with satellite towns as far as the Sinai hills 50 miles away. His most vigorous opposition springs from the left-wing Mapam Party. It accepts border settlements as a temporary protective measure but believes that in the long run, the country will be more secure if a formal peace is negotiated and Arabs...
...zone press began to plague Harvard, though, and Dartmouth converted three straight turnovers into baskets to move back into the game, at $1-46 by the buzzer...
...first serious 20th century assault on congressional power was made by Theodore Roosevelt, who took the novel step of outlining his own Square Deal program, although he had no great success in getting it enacted. Without asking Congress, he intervened to protect the Panama Canal Zone from Colombian forces, boasting later: "I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate, and while the debate goes on, the Canal Zone does too." Yet when his successor, President Taft, had the temerity to have a bill drafted and presented to Congress, House Democrats haughtily objected to the notion that they should consider...
Miami's superb zone defense which intercepted three passes, the power running of Larry Czonka, who ran for 114 yards and the pinpoint passing of Bob Griese were too much for George Allen's Redskins, as the Dolphins took a 14-0 lead into the locker room at half time and held on in the final 30 minutes for the victory...