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...Sinai desert of Egypt. No armies are trapped there to add urgency to negotiations; rather, there are civilian settlers on both sides, which makes discussions more complicated. Both nations, moreover, have made seemingly irreconcilable demands. Syria insists that Israel, as a first step, return all of the 154-sq.-mi. "bulge" that it captured in the October war along with portions of Syrian territory captured in 1967, including Quneitra, the principal settlement of the Golan. Damascus also demands a timetable for the return of all territory it lost in the Six-Day War -a total of 772 sq. mi...
...south of the Kurds' mountainous, 10,000-sq.-mi. redoubt," reports Fitchett, "are Kurdish valleys where villages have been largely deserted. Fearful of air raids, entire families have taken to living in caves. Even in towns farther back in the mountains, almost all activity occurs at night, including grammar school for pupils,, who carry flashlights to get to their classes. The foothills are now a contested no man's land that has already been the scene of several skirmishes." Among other triumphs, the Kurdish radio claims that the Pesh Merga killed one Iraqi general hi combat and shot...
...World War II it became the object of a prolonged tug of war between Italy and Yugoslavia, whose partisans had participated in the Allied capture of the region. In 1954, however, a practical accommodation was reached. Italy was granted provisional control over the northern section of the 287-sq.-mi. territory. Called Zone A, it included the city of Trieste (pop. 270,000), which is predominantly Italian but has a large Slovene minority. The rest of the area, Zone B, was kept provisionally under Yugoslav control...
...Philippine forces, Onoda went underground with three enlisted men; one of his compatriots surrendered in 1950, and the other two were killed in shoot-outs with Philippine police, the first in 1954 and the second in 1972. Meanwhile, Onoda set up a series of hideouts across the 74-sq.-mi. island, stealing food to keep alive and keeping intact several caches of live ammunition. Over the years, Onoda and his men are suspected of having killed at least 30 Filipinos who came upon their path, and wounding 100 others...
...B.C.P. suddenly struck again. An estimated 10,000 insurgents overran the government garrison at Mongyang and threatened the city of Kengtung, which commands the approach to the strategic Mekong River and to Thailand. In December government forces regained Mongyang. The insurgents apparently still control some 10,000 sq. mi. north of Kengtung, where they have tied up as many as 20 battalions of the 135,000-man Burmese army...