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...border was closed. Finally allowed to pass through Turkey, they were held up for four more days by the Syrians. As Iranians in a hostile Arab world, the drivers were probably lucky to have reached the Allenby Bridge at all, much less in two weeks. Said Benjamin Gur-Arieh, Prime Minister Menachem Begin's adviser on Arab affairs: "I'm not sure I would have driven those buses through Jordan. Maybe the [pro-Iraqi] Jordanians would have confiscated the buses and turned the drivers into soldiers...
...other Muslim country was willing to supply transportation for the Israeli faithful, who until 1978 were not allowed to make the hajj because they were citizens of the Jewish state. "The Iranians want to give the impression that they are the patrons of all Islam," said Gur-Arieh. Indeed, the pilgrims expressed profound gratitude to the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini for his religious diplomacy, despite the fact that he is a leader of the Shi'ite branch of Islam while the Israeli Arabs are rival Sunnis. "Even if they cut my throat," said one pilgrim, "I'm for Khomeini...
...evacuated Bedouins could well have nowhere to go at all for some time. The four new proposed industrial settlements have yet to be built, and the government has no plans for temporary housing. Shrugs Benjamin Gur-Arieh, Premier Menachem Begin's adviser on Arab affairs: "They can double up in their tents until the villages are ready. They're used to it." Opposition to the law is gathering force in the Knesset, but critics of the government are more concerned about the Bedouins' inability to appeal than about the terms of compensation. Says Begin's former...
...achieve this feat, Chemists Arieh Aviram of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center and Mark A. Ratner of New York University propose making use of a well-known characteristic of the molecule: the higher the "binding energy" that holds it together, the less likely it is to lose electrons. The chemists recently told the American Physical Society that two or more small molecules with a large enough difference in binding energies might be combined into one large molecule that could perform electronic functions...
Comrade Messiah? As it was, the only negative sentiment was voiced by former Party Secretary-General Arieh Eliav. "This program is brought before us with the lashing of the whip of time and the scourge of haste and panic!" he shouted. "There are many in this land whose souls weep in silence because of this document. I will be the voice of the ideological Jewry of silence and never, at no price and in no forum, will I ever vote for this document." Sneered Golda Meir: "I have lived through 50 years of political activity and never before have...