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| 1975 |
| | | The king of Morocco sends 350,000 settlers across the border into Western Sahara | |
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| 1976 |
| | | The UN entrusts the Western Sahara to joint administration by Morocco and Mauritania | |
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| 1976 |
| | | The Polisario, as a government-in-exile in Algeria, proclaim the independence of Western Sahara as the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Black American author Alex Haley traces his family origins in Africa in Roots | |
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| 1977 |
| | | Anwar el-Sadat, the Egyptian president, travels to Jerusalem to propose a peace plan to the Israelis | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Anwar el-Sadat and Menachem Begin sign an Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty at Camp David in the USA | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat share the Nobel Peace Prize | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Morocco annexes the Mauritanian part of the Western Sahara, thus taking control of the entire region | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Muslim terrorists assassinate Anwar el-Sadat, in response to his peace agreement with Israel | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Sadat is peacefully succeeded in Egypt by his vice-president, Hosni Mubarak | |
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