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...June 7, 1967, Kallia's Arab defenders had vanished across the Jordan River, leaving buildings, installations and many vehicles intact. For a time, Kallia was merely another dot on Israeli military maps of the occupied territories. Then, just a year ago, the soldier-farmers of Nahal, an acronym in Hebrew meaning "pioneering fighting youth," were dispatched to Kallia. Their mission: to protect Kallia and its portion of the frontier facing Jordan-and to make the desert bloom for Israel...
While small towns generally welcome the bases as a boost to their economies, urban dwellers view the ABM more as a magnet to enemy missiles than as a defense against them. On Bainbridge Island, near Seattle, protests are financed by the sale of buttons reading "SCRAM!" -an acronym for Sentinel Cities Reject Anti-Missiles...
Tragic Conflict. Britain's policies were another matter, however. On Rhodesia, Wilson stuck by his proposal that a referendum be held on independence, despite the obvious difficulties in arranging safeguards to protect black voters. A majority of the delegates voted instead for the proposal embodied in the awkward acronym NIBMAR (No Independence Before Majority African Rule). Home Secretary James Callaghan angered nonwhite Commonwealth members by refusing to guarantee a welcome for any and all British passport holders of Asian descent. His refusal was particularly galling to East African nations, which have renewed a harsh campaign against thousands of Asian...
...name is an acronym derived from the Arabic words Harakat al Tahrir al-Falastin, or Movement for the Liberation of Palestine. Its initials, H.T.F., form the Arabic word for death. They are ingeniously reversible to F.T.H., pronounced "faht," meaning conquest -hence El Fatah or, as it is less commonly spelled, El Fateh...
Dinner with Danny Kaye. Last week St. Louis had its turn. The Arts and Educational Council of Greater St. Louis may lack an acronym (AECOGSL being plainly impossible), but the council, representing nine different cultural and educational organizations, put on the most imaginative auction to date. The scene was a basement cafeteria in the new Monsanto Co. headquarters designed by Vincent Kling; the basement's rugged concrete walls were turned into a castle keep by the addition of bright banners, shields and coats of arms. The theme of the auction was Camelot. Up for bids were dozens of items...