Word: ariels
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...just in time for the master's 75th birthday. Kim established a precedent for this performance in Exercises en Route, his first successful attempt to set the spoken word to music. In this new form which he calls "Music/Theatre," Kim draws upon the improvizational abilities of the Ariel Music Ensemble...
...form of linkage. Some groused last week that Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman had "acted without authority" in their zeal to reach a settlement with the Egyptians in Washington. Later the Cabinet was the scene of an unusually angry argument over a plan by hawkish Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon to establish a big new Israeli settlement in Gaza. Many of Sharon's colleagues thought this a bad idea anyway; practically all of them were angry that his aides had leaked the details of the plan while the peace talks were at a delicate stage in Washington...
...problem stemmed less from duplicity than from the confusion of recent events. In late June, when it had appeared that the Middle East peace negotiations were seriously and perhaps permanently stalled, Begin and his senior colleagues had indeed approved a secret plan to build the villages. Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon, a strong advocate of settlements, quietly went about the task of asking the various kibbutzim movements for volunteers. Soon the opposition Labor Party learned of the plan, and so did the press...
Since Begin came to power, the government has legitimized formerly illegal settlements started by Israelis who simply went out to the West Bank. There are even more ambitious plans for the future. Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon is promoting a plan to settle 2 million Jews in the occupied territories. Defense Minister Weizman has drawn up a plan of his own; it calls for the construction of six large urban centers on the West Bank. If carried out, says a longtime observer in Jerusalem, "this plan would be the last straw. In five or ten years, it would gobble...
...sanity." Early in March, when he was in Washington negotiating yet another big Israeli request for U.S. arms ($13.5 billion worth over the next nine years), he got into a widely reported transoceanic squabble with his boss; he told Begin that he would resign if Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon was allowed to proceed with work on some new settlements on the West Bank against his own orders. Begin agreed to stop the work, but later grumbled to some aides that the many warriors in his Cabinet (Weizman, Sharon, Dayan and Deputy Premier Yigael Yadin are all decorated generals...