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...Travel by jet. Had the trip between Aswan and Tel Aviv been in a prop plane (five hours) instead of a jet (two hours) the chances for misgiving and delay would have risen...
...muddy blue and white Tel Aviv bus, with its sign, "In military service," halted near Suez city, 85 miles east of Cairo. This was the last stop before the Egyptian-Israeli cease-fire line 13 miles farther south. The ginger-haired civilian driver opened the door alongside a platoon of soldiers waiting by their halftracks at the edge of the road. "This line is closing down," he said happily. "See you in Tel Aviv." The soldiers cheered and clapped their hands. They were getting...
Most of the noncoms and privates were reservists and glad to be done with war. "We may have to come back," said an Iraqi-born elevator technician from Jaffa who had been serving as a mortarman, "but in the meantime I want to live a little." Added a Tel Aviv housepainter: "We can manage out here at the front all right, but we have problems at home. My business has gone to hell, I've got debts up to my neck, and the pay they give you for reserve service ($190 a month) doesn't cover everything when...
...Syria; last week three more Israeli soldiers were killed and 15 wounded. Such losses make it more difficult for Premier Golda Meir, in the wake of a national election that returned her to power with a reduced plurality, to form a new government committed to continuing negotiations. The Tel Aviv newspaper Yediot Aharonot, echoing a widespread feeling, demanded: "Why can't we react immediately to the provocation? Do we have to obtain approval from Washington to protect ourselves against murder...
Winners in last week's voting, which allotted seats on the basis of party slate showings rather than to individual candidates, included Armored Force General Shlomo Lahat and outspoken Housewife Shulamit Aloni. Lahat campaigned for mayor of Tel Aviv as though he were waging a military campaign. "Give me a broom and I will sweep this city clean" was his slogan. In a country where sizable numbers of nonpracticing Jews apparently resent the religious laws that apply to everybody, Aloni appeared to have gained at least two seats in the Knesset for her small civil rights party, whose platform...