Word: al
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...enter prison. Soblen made his way to Idlewild Airport, boarded a plane and, using a dead brother's Canadian passport, flew to Israel. He was arrested in Tel Aviv for entering the country illegally, expelled from Israel without a court hearing, and bundled aboard an El Al jet to New York via London. Just before the jet touched down at London Airport. Soblen stabbed himself in the wrist and stomach; on landing, he was hurried off to nearby Hillingdon Hospital for emergency treatment...
...clash came in Meany's room at the Sheraton-Chicago Hotel. Reuther had requested the meeting, and at 4 p.m. he showed up in the company of Dave Dubinsky of the ladies' garment workers' union and Al Hayes of the machinists...
Extended Deadlines. The British tried to evade the extradition flypaper by 1) maintaining that Soblen was not really in Britain, legally speaking, and 2) trying to persuade El Al to fly Soblen to the U.S. But with Ben-Gurion under political attack, the Israelis insisted that if El Al had to fly Soblen out of Britain it would take him to Israel, not to the U.S. Britain rejected the back-to-israel solution: the U.S. was pressing for Soblen's return and Britain did not want to annoy its No. 1 ally by letting Soblen get away. Again...
...week's end the British finally gave up on El Al and, despite the earlier insistence that Soblen had never really entered Britain, ordered him deported...
...many as 15 pieds-noirs live in the same small apartment. Midtown Marseille has become one huge traffic jam as 800 pied-noir cars arrive from Algeria daily; and the newcomers have an irksome habit of breaking the city's antinoise ordinance by honking the five notes Al-gér-ie Fran-çaise on their car horns. Many angry parents have discovered that the hordes of children from Algeria enrolled in Marseille schools next fall have left no room for their own kids...