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...Sinai. Egypt would regain sovereignty over this huge (23,440 sq. mi.) desert peninsula, and Israel would withdraw its forces to the pre-1967 lines and remove its 16 Sinai settlements. Israel regards the area primarily as a strategic buffer zone. To ensure Israel's security, Egypt's armed forces would not move beyond the twelve or so mile-wide strip it now occupies east of the Suez Canal. The rest of Sinai would be demilitarized and policed by a U.N. peace-keeping force. Although American monitoring 8 technicians now in the Sinai should be recalled...
...died in India's most devastating tropical storm since 1971. What had turned the storm into a killer were the 18-ft. tidal waves that swept as far as 15 miles inland across the low-lying rice land and coconut gardens of the Krishna River delta. About 150 sq. mi. of land became a solid sheet of water. Twenty-one villages, 13 of them in the delta, were inundated, leaving 2 million homeless. The port of Machilipatnam, 20 miles upriver, was destroyed. All told, about 2 million acres were affected, including 200,000 acres of rice ready for harvesting...
...very sobering trip," remarked Jimmy Carter last month after touring several blocks of burned-out buildings, rubble-choked vacant lots and garbage-strewn streets in the South Bronx of New York City. He ordered Aide Jack Watson Jr. to devise a salvage plan for the 3-sq.-mi. area, where about 400,000 people now live (compared with about 530,000 in 1970). Last week Watson got some unsolicited but worthwhile advice from I.D. Robbins, a part-time columnist for the New York Daily News and reform-minded real estate developer...
...that his heating bills climbed out of sight last winter. When President Carter in April proposed homeowner tax credits for installing insulation, Coleman figured he could at least afford to make his four-bedroom house more energy efficient. But when he went to the lumber store to buy 750 sq. ft. of fiber-glass insulation for his attic, he could not get one square inch. The store had been sold out for weeks, and no one had any idea when new shipments would arrive. Gripes Coleman: "It's ridiculous. I've been waiting for nearly three months...
...disease, had no natural defenses. Soon hundreds of new cases were being reported annually. The panic that had swept Europe during its epidemics centuries earlier was repeated in Hawaii. In 1865, King Kamehameha V ordered all lepers confined to the most desolate part of his realm, the volcanic, 14-sq.-mi. peninsula of Kalaupapa jutting northward from the coast of Molokai. The first 35 patients were landed in January 1866, with no more food and clothing than they could carry on their backs...