Word: aviv
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Israel Public Affairs Committee (HIPAC) tabled in front of Widener Library yesterday, soliciting signatures asking President-elect Bill Clinton to move the U.S. embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem...
...sovereign nation has the right to determine its capital," said Amalia D. Kessler '95, a HIPAC member who helped with the letter circulation. "If the U.S. accepts Israel's basic right to exist, then it must recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capitol by moving its embassy there from Tel-Aviv...
HIPAC co-chair Joshua E. Lehrer-Graiwer '95 agreed. "Maintaining the U.S. embassy in Tel-Aviv is analogous to Israel keeping its embassy in Boston," he said...
...BLAME? THE QUEStion ricocheted around the globe. From Amsterdam, where the charred remains of victims were being shoveled out of smoldering rubble. To Tel Aviv, where El Al Airlines fielded inquiries about its plane's safety record. To Seattle, where the Boeing Co. called on carriers worldwide to inspect the engine mountings of 551 747 jets. To Taiwan, where divers searched the ocean floor for fresh clues to the cause of a mysterious -- and perhaps similar -- crash last December...
...quiet evening of Oct. 4, when an El Al 747-200F cargo crashed into a 10-story low-income apartment building in southeast Amsterdam. Laden with fuel and 114 tons of commercial cargo, the freighter had taken off from Schiphol Airport at 6:22 p.m., headed for Tel Aviv. Six minutes later, veteran pilot Isaac Fuchs issued a distress call, reporting a fire in a right-wing engine. As he circled back for the airport, dumping fuel in preparation for an emergency landing, he radioed that a second engine had failed. "Going down! Going down!" Fuchs' words, monitored...