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...good reason to be wary. The rambunctious Gaddafi's public scorn for Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria could jeopardize Egypt's international quest for diplomatic and financial support. So, too, could his impulsiveness. In February, Cairo had to dissuade him from sending Mirage bombers to Tel Aviv to avenge Israel's shooting down of the Libyan airliner...
...prominent Soviet scientists who lived on nothing but bottled mineral water for two weeks in mid-June. All had been fired from their official posts for trying to emigrate to Israel, and then barred from emigrating at all. Partly to keep up their spirits, the president of Tel Aviv University got Azbel and another physicist, Alexander Voronel, appointed to his own faculty; he persuaded neighboring Bar-Han University to hire a third, Moshe Gitter-man. "I hope that the administration will excuse my being unable to start my duties immediately, as I am, so to say, on leave," Voronel wistfully...
Thus the long-distance teaching began. At least once a week the three have been on the phone to Tel Aviv. The physicists come in loud and clear, with no interruptions from the KGB, which is presumably listening. For this reason, discussions are wholly on science with no politics mixed in. One disadvantage of the strange system, says Israeli Physicist Yosef Imry, is that students will not be able to ask questions of the scientists, "but our staff members will be able to field them." Imry says the scientists are "bursting with thoughts they want to communicate. Sometimes, when they...
Physicist Yuval Ne'eman, president of Tel Aviv University, says that he and other Israeli scientists were instrumental in persuading the six to end their hunger strike last week. He describes the phone calls as enabling the Russian scientists to maintain their sense of value. "We want them to feel that life is still worth living and that they are doing important work. They are men who are at the top of their profession. For them not to remain active is like dying...
Married. Moshe Dayan, 58, Israeli Defense Minister; and his longtime companion, Rahel Korem, 47; both for the second time; in a Tel Aviv suburb...