Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israeli Arabs are part of the larger Arab-Israeli problem," said Eisenstadt, especially since the war when communication opened between Israeli, West Bank (i.e., the occupied territory), and Jordanian Arabs. "Israeli Arabs are no longer sealed off from the Arab world, and the Israeli government is encouraging this communication. If there is a good settlement with the Arab nations," Eisenstadt continued, "it will alleviate the problems of the Israeli Arabs...
...protesting students charged that the law firm--Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, and McCoy--oppresses the black people of South Africa by supporting their government. The firm represents the Chase Manhattan Bank...
...guerrillas' disadvantage, the bleak, rocky West Bank, where they target most of their operations, does not provide good cover, and the Israelis are a formidably efficient enemy. They claim to have killed or captured 2,650 fedayeen and tend to dismiss them as amateurs. "We cannot dignify them with the name guerrilla or commando," says an Israeli officer. "The Arabs who cross over show no daring. In that respect, they are nowhere near Viet Cong standards." The Israelis do respect Arafat, however. Their intelligence network has twice reported him on Israeli soil, and twice he escaped a dragnet. "Anyone...
Thus for all the Israelis' contempt for the raiders, there is evidence that they are worried. Recently, Israel closed the Allenby Bridge over the Jordan River to truck traffic, reversing its own policy of keeping connections between Jordan and the West Bank open. Now trucks coming from Jordan must unload on one side, and the goods are reloaded into Israeli vehicles on the other side, all under the watchful eyes of po- lice. Police barricades have been set up outside Jerusalem and more green-be-reted civil guards called up to reserve duty. At Israeli schools, teachers...
McCracken has had a number of previous tours of duty in Government. Iowa-born and Harvard-educated, the 52-year-old economist worked for the Commerce Department and later for the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank before joining Michigan's faculty in 1948. Nixon became acquainted with McCracken when he was a member of the three-man Council of Economic Advisers under President Eisenhower from 1956 to 1959. After he returned to Michigan, McCracken befriended a number of educators, auto company executives and newspaper publishers, some of whom dine with him every month in an informal club, relish his summations...