Word: bengurion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Israel's former Prime Minister David BenGurion...
McCloskey, a specialist in American Constitutional law, questions whether "a legal trial can have its inception in an illegal base." Referring to Israeli Premier BenGurion's frequent declarations that one of the purposes of the trial is to teach the present generation a lesson in history that it might have forgotten. McCloskey accuses BenGurion of "perhaps mixing a great deal of immorality into a moral lesson." He cites the kidnapping of Eichmann and the lack of a legal basis for Israel's claim to jurisdiction, and asks. "Can you make a moral point by immoral means...
...troops have kept the peace for three years. British and U.S. diplomats questioned the reality of the Arab fears, and Ben-Gurion himself announced that he would shortly leave for a trip to the U.S., as if to show there was no reason for war scares. In the U.S., BenGurion will also seek assurance of American sympathy prior to the summit meeting, when he fears that the U.S. and Russia might compromise Israel in an effort to arrange a Middle East settlement...
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