Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russians had already registered their displeasure by canceling fisheries talks that were in progress in Moscow. The Soviets had previously cut severely into Japanese fishing rights by declaring a 200-mile protected zone around their northern shores. Japanese officials in Tokyo, however, doubted whether Moscow would go so far as to damage their trading relationship, which at $3 billion a year is beneficial to both countries...
...keep some civilian installations there for a limited period. We are ready to restore your sovereignty over all of Sinai and to put our settlements in the Rafah area under your flag. We suggest small Israeli civilian settlements [in Sinai] instead of army installations. The buffer zone between the two armies in Sinai should be enlarged so that there will be no chance of a future confrontation...
...that, it now seems clear that, when they finally met, Begin and Sadat neither liked nor understood each other. Right from the beginning the misunderstandings were apparent. Sadat, for example, said in Jerusalem that the last Israeli settlement in the Sinai should determine the Israeli border of the buffer zone. The Begin government interpreted this, or chose to interpret it, as a green light to expand the Sinai settlements before a peace agreement had been concluded. When the Israelis began leveling land for enlarging the settlements last January, Sadat became furious at what he considered bad faith on Begin...
Refugees from the forbidden zone have been relocated in temporary accommodations near by, compensated for lost property and produce, and promised new houses equal to those they abandoned. The process has already cost Givaudan $11 million. Even so, says Housewife Caterina Rivolta, 54, "I'd give anything to move back. My husband and I saved for 16 years to buy our home. Nothing will ever replace...
...endless grim tales. An old woman from Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) recounted how all her possessions had been seized. "Not even her wardrobe, beds, stools, bowls and saucers were spared," according to one report. She was also threatened with resettlement in one of the "new economic zones" where Hanoi proposes to place 10 million city dwellers. China charges that the zone is "nothing but an expanse of wilderness without drinking water but with swarms of poisonous mosquitoes." Other refugees told of threats, harassment and confiscation of property, even though many of them had fought in the Vietnamese army...