Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...withdrawal. It also called for U.N. military control of the strategic site of Sharm el Sheikh, and stationing of almost all Egyptians in the Sinai to the west of the strategic Mitla and Giddi passes, with a U.N. force east of the passes and creation of a large "buffer zone...
...Baker combined to draft amendments to the treaties containing exactly the language of the "clarification" -then deftly persuaded the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to omit it so that a host of Senators could co-sponsor the amendments and thus claim credit for protecting U.S. interests in the Panama Canal Zone. By week's end, 78 Senators had signed on as cosponsors...
Nevertheless, the fact remains that Somoza's National Guard carries American guns, drives American tanks and flies American planes. They are often trained by the Pentagon, either by American advisors in Nicaragua or at the U.S.-run School of the Americas in the Canal zone. Somoza, himself a graduate of West Point, boasts that a higher percentage of his officers are trained at this school--which emphasizes counter insurgency--than that of any other armed forces in Latin America. Moreover, American dollars flow through international institutions such as the World Bank and the Harvard Business School's INCAE program...
...been forced to play immediately following their third place Ivy tourney showing, turned into a rout early on as the Wildcats waltzed to a 20-points first-half bulge on the strength of some hot outside shooting that the tired Harvard women just couldn't handle with their exhausted zone defense...
...three days of talks the delegates narrowed the gap toward a Sinai settlement. The Egyptians reportedly suggested that the Israelis could keep their settlements in the Rafah salient of the northern Sinai for a limited time (the exact period to be decided later), as part of a U.N. buffer zone, and retain their settlements along the Gulf of Aqaba?but only under Egyptian rule, as Cairo's "welcome guests." More important, the Egyptians seemed ready to allow Israel to keep its big military airbase at Etzion and continue using the military airbase at Eitam as a civilian airfield. Weizman took...