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...military DC-3. We came in for a hard landing on a makeshift airstrip. There were no roads and no inhabitants. The only man-made attractions were two British-built naval guns that had been spiked by retreating Egyptians. This time, my Arkia Viscount made the flight from Tel Aviv in 70 minutes and glided to a powder-puff landing on a hard-topped runway long enough to accommodate a Boeing...
...caravansary. Before we started, the bus driver turned to a young man. "Nu, buddy," he said, "where are you going without a ticket?" The man paid the 40-cent fare and said, "Take me downtown." At that the driver smiled. "Downtown? This isn't Tel Aviv-yet." Certainly not, judging from a first look at the treeless landscape, flat stretches of fine reddish gravel, and cone-shaped peaks of the bleak Sinai range. But the driver's yet was indicative. Small red surveyor's pennants are everywhere along the road...
...flew back to Tel Aviv with Dov Friedman, manager of the local office of Israel's Egged bus cooperative. Friedman, who recently planted the settlement's first two trees, was returning for a brief visit with his family. "Strategically, this is Israel's neck," said he, offering a typical Israeli view on the importance of the place. "If we ever leave, the Arabs will choke us. If we decide that we have got to keep Sharm el Sheikh, it is only logical that we populate and develop it. That...
...come to this: exactly how much territory does Israel intend to surrender? Arab negotiators say, largely for public consumption, that every acre must be returned. On the other hand, Israel's Premier Golda Meir drew some pretty specific lines during a women's Zionist meeting in Tel Aviv last week, indicating that her country aims to retain some key areas. "The Americans know very well how much we can concede," said Mrs. Meir. "They know we cannot concede the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem or Sharm el Sheikh...
...malady. Words-the deluge of daily words-have overloaded his circuits. Even when he is strolling down the street, minding his own business, his poor brain jerks under the impact of instructions (WALK-DON'T WALK), threats (TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED), and newsstand alarms (PLANE CRASH AT TEL AVIV). Finally, Le Clézio's Everyman goes numb-nature's last defense. Spoken words become mere sounds, a meaningless buzz in the ears. The most urgent printed words-a poem by Baudelaire, a proclamation of war-have no more profound effect than the advice he reads (without...