Word: arab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swiss police said later that the four had arrived ten days before, and had destroyed their passports, evidently to shield Arab governments from blame. They will face a battery of charges in Swiss courts. As for Rahamim, who was also arrested, his expected plea of self-defense will turn on whether or not the slain terrorist was disarmed before he was shot-a point the Swiss were still investigating...
...reason for the diplomatic denunciations was to head off any massive Israeli retaliation, such as the commando raid on Beirut airport last December. In Israel itself, government leaders reiterated their longstanding policy of holding Arab governments responsible for terrorist attacks, and thereby subject to reprisal. As Defense Minister Moshe Dayan put it, "We shall hit them where it hurts most...
...rest of the world, the ceasefire lines that marked the end of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war are only temporary frontiers. But as the political stalemate continues, the Israelis are quietly hardening the lines and forging their own solution out of the status quo. So far, they have formally annexed only Arab Jerusalem, but in accordance with a plan proposed by Deputy Premier Yigal Alton and secretly approved by the Cabinet four weeks ago (TIME, Feb. 7), they are settling the Golan Heights, cutting roads for new villages in the Sinai, and establishing a string of fortified settlements overlooking...
...whose natural caves were found the treasures of the Dead Sea scrolls. At Ain (spring) Feshkha, a favorite spa of ancient Rome's 1 Oth Legion officers, waters still ripple out of the otherwise lifeless ground. When Israeli armor appeared on 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...
...material support, without reservations or conditions." The 105-member council, which considers itself a Parliament in exile for the Palestinians, elected as its chairman Yasser Arafat (TIME Cover, Dec. 13), spokesman for El Fatah, the largest fedayeen organization. The post makes him the Palestinians' official representative to Arab governments and the collection agent for their contributions to the guerrilla movement. Even so, Arafat's election did nothing to bridge the rift between El Fatah and the rival fedayeen organizations that boycotted the conference, notably the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Palestine Liberation Army...