Word: als
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victim was tough-talking Zuheir Mohsen, 43, who was both Military Operations Chief of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization and head of the P.L.O.'s Syrian-backed Al Saiqa faction. The assassination of the top guerrilla leader roused irate reaction around the Arab world. Syria blamed the "Camp David Alliance" of Israel, Egypt and the U.S. for the killing. The P.L.O. command in Beirut charged that the hit team had been dispatched directly from Begin's office. Mohsen's own Saiqa group accused the Egyptian secret service and its Israeli counterpart, Mossad, of having conspired...
...encampment of Tel al Malach-the "Hill of Salt"-is a huddled cluster of tents and tin shacks moored uncertainly on the monotonous wastes of the northeastern Negev, the barren desert that adjoins the Sinai inside integral Israeli territory. The 10,000 Bedouin tribesmen of the region, who are Israeli Arab citizens, have extracted a primitive livelihood there for hundreds of years, tending small flocks of sheep and raising meager harvests of wheat. Though Bedouins are traditionally nomadic, these have never strayed far from the four tribal cemeteries where their ancestors are buried...
...industrial townships. The Bedouins have raised their small minority voice in protest, even vowing that blood will be spilled before the controversy is over, but thus far to no avail. When the Negev Lands Purchase Law receives parliamentary approval in the Knesset, which seems assured, the Bedouins of Tel al Malach will have become little noticed victims of irrepressible development, and indirectly of the Middle East peace process...
...Third World War, Hackett, et al...
...Elephant Man. Winner of both the New York Drama Critics Circle and Tony awards, this drama about a man (Philip Anglim) grotesque in shape but al most saintly in spirit is the kind of the atrical experience that opens a window on the high cost, strange mystery and in effable blessing of human life...