Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terrorist and leader of Israel's hot-headed Herut party, visited Paris and was invited to address the Chamber of Deputies?an unprecedented honor for an opposition politician of a foreign country. Secretly, France shipped Israel an extra 30 Mystere jet fighters. On Sept. 23, Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion joyfully proclaimed that Israel had at last found "a true ally." (The U.S. embassy in Israel sent round to ask who, got no answer...
Three of the Princeton eating clubs: Charter, Key and Seal, and Quadrangle, will be open to Harvard students on Saturday night. The bands of Ben Cutler, "Wild Bill" Davidson, and Ben Napier will furnish the music...
...minutes later the Algerians (accompanied by nine newsmen) took off in a chartered DC-3 of Air Atlas, Moroccan-operated but staffed with French crews. Unsuspecting, Mohammed ben Bella, the Algerian military chief (who won the Croix de guerre as a sergeant in World War II), settled down to study papers. Mohammed Khider, the underground's political chief, scanned Paris-Match...
...called out the routine "Please do not move till the plane is completely stopped," then disappeared into the pilot's compartment. Tommy gun-toting gendarmes pried open the plane's back door, poured into the cabin while the passengers were still tied down in their safety belts. Ben Bella said: "All right, we're coming out." One by one the passengers, hands high, got down to the tarmac and were taken away. Shouted Ben Bella: "This is how you can trust the French...
...Hakim Amer, flew into Jordan's capital city of Amman. He quickly negotiated a pact to align Jordan's army, alongside those of Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia, under Amer's command in case of war with Israel. The reaction of Israel was swift. Premier David Ben-Gurion proclaimed a partial mobilization of Israel's armed forces, as "a precautionary measure and to safeguard the security of Israel's borders and border settlements." This week President Eisenhower held emergency meetings at Walter Reed Hospital, dispatched a cable to Ben-Gurion asking Israel to avoid doing...