Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israeli attack at Beirut [Jan. 3] was monumentally stupid. Some Arabs are moderates as far as Israel is concerned, and would like to work out solutions at the conference table if Israel and their own people would permit. Others are militants and see no answer but the gun and the grenade. Israel's attack pulled the rug from under the moderates, whom they should aim to strengthen, and added tremendously to the backing of the militants...
...wake of the latest flare-up in the Middle East, occasioned by the Arab terrorist attack on an El Al plane in Athens and Israel's reprisal raid on Beirut airport, the Soviet Union last week stepped up its latest diplomatic offensive. Its aim: a four-power agreement among the U.S., Russia, Britain and France on a peace package to offer to the Middle East's antagonists...
...much as anything else, De Gaulle took offense at the symbolism he perceived in the Beirut airport attack. "The fact that French helicopters were used to destroy French Caravelles is altogether unacceptable," he told his Cabinet, reportedly adding: "They could at least have used American Sikorskys." Angered at Israel's "unspeakable and unacceptable" behavior, De Gaulle went further than the simple resolution of censure voted in the U.N. He decreed a total embargo on all shipments of French arms to Israel...
...Yugoslavs are treated with courtesy. Two years ago, the dependents of Soviet diplomats were evacuated as Red Guards spat on them at the Peking airport and made them crawl under portraits of Mao Tse-tung; now these Soviet citizens are returning. A recent complaint to India over an attack on the Chinese embassy in New Delhi was stern but matter-of-fact, and there was no counter-demonstration in Peking-in stark contrast to 1967, when at least twelve foreign embassies were besieged by Red Guards at one time or another. There is also evidence that overseas Chinese communities, most...
...course organization of Soc Rel 101--a Fall term half-course on Communist Chinese society--came under attack yesterday in a discussion between the course's professor and some of its students...