Word: ariels
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...Spanish-speaking barber, optometrist or lawyer. In the barrios of Los Angeles, an Argentine can watch the latest movies from his homeland at any of a dozen theaters, while a Guatemalan can find a soccer league composed entirely of players from the country he left. In Chicago, says Ariel Zapata, a journalist who emigrated from Colombia last year, "it is possible to live, work and play without speaking any English...
...Likud's leader, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, said in a radio interview that he favored the release of the Israeli extremists "if only they publicly express their remorse at what they have done or intended to do." Even more adamant was another powerful Likud member, Industry and Trade Minister Ariel Sharon, the former Defense Minister who planned and carried out the invasion of Lebanon. Said Sharon: "It is unimaginable that after the release of the most terrible murderers . . . we should keep the Jewish underground prisoners under lock...
Former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and the retiring U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Samuel Lewis, are known to harbor a deep animosity for each other. But until now Lewis has avoided public criticism of Sharon, currently Minister of Industry and Trade in Israel's coalition government. As he prepared to leave for home last week after eight years as ambassador, Lewis recalled for Israeli television a December 1981 meeting between Sharon and Philip Habib, then the U.S. special envoy in the Middle East. The session was held six months before the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Sharon, said Lewis, outlined plans...
...broad legal knowledge, integrity and modesty, who headed the commission of inquiry into the Israeli role in the 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees by Christian militiamen in Beirut; of a heart attack; in Haifa. The Kahan commission's exhaustive, carefully worded report assigned "personal responsibility" to Defense Minister Ariel Sharon for not anticipating and ordering measures to prevent the bloodshed and apportioned a "certain degree" of blame to Prime Minister Menachem Begin...
Opinion was divided on whether the outcome in Westmoreland's case, and in the libel case that former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon lost against TIME, would encourage or discourage libel suits. Said Executive Editor Heath Meriwether of the Miami Herald: "The ability of CBS to put on a rousing defense was well noted, and I would hope that this has raised red flags among potential plaintiffs. Libel litigation has not proved to be either effective or efficient as the forum in which to seek redress for alleged wrongs." First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams, whose clients have included...