Word: ariels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jerusalem, the official investigation of the Beirut massacre continued, and once again the commission of inquiry heard testimony that appeared to contradict the previous statements of Begin and his Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. Lieut. Colonel Ze'ev Zeharin, an aide to Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan, testified that he was "100% sure" Sharon first spoke on Tuesday evening, Sept. 14, two days before the massacre began, about the plan for Lebanese Christian militiamen to enter the Palestinian camps. Sharon had testified that he first broached the subject on the following day. Zeharin also said Eitan had told him that...
...spoke calmly and deliberately, never raising his voice or losing his temper. Ariel Sharon, Israel's embattled Defense Minister, was on the witness stand, testifying before the commission of inquiry that is investigating the circumstances surrounding the Beirut massacre of Sept. 16 to 18. Since the hearings were being held in a lecture hall of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the setting seemed as relaxed as a college seminar. In fact, it was a tension-charged inquiry that could lead, in a few months' time, to the resignation of the tough and ambitious Sharon and perhaps even...
Students also form deep friendships through the program Paul R. Johnson, a sophomore, reflects that "I'm not a fanatical user, but it's a handy way of talking to new and old friends "David Ariel Cohen, a junior whose sign on name is The Wizeard of Id," has been able to track down people he met who now are his companions to frequent late-night pizza party...
...among the many sickened by the massacre in Beirut. I also believe Ariel Sharon was guilty of criminal negligence in allowing revenge-filled Christian forces into the Palestinian camps. But how about a sense of proportion in dealing with the tragedy? Let us not use the word Holocaust lightly. There has been nothing comparable in Lebanon or elsewhere to Hitler's deliberate campaign to murder all European Jews, which resulted in the death of 6 million...
...lost considerable support among Americans. Forty-eight percent said they were less sympathetic toward Begin than a year ago; 13% felt more sympathy; 35% reported no change. Thirty percent felt that the Begin government had to take the major responsibility for the refugee massacre; 28% blamed Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, while 39% blamed the Christian Phalangists, and 21% blamed the P.L.O. In December 1981, the poll found that 58% considered Israel to be a trustworthy U.S. ally. That figure has dropped...