Word: benning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President of the National Assembly Rabah Bitat, 53, a member of the eight-man Council of the Revolution and one of the firebrands who played a pivotal role in ousting the French in 1962. Three years later, Bitat joined Boumedienne's government after the bloodless overthrow of Ahmed ben Bella. The constitution limits Bitat to a 45-day term of office, during which the F.L.N. is supposed to choose a candidate and present him to the people for election...
...been useful, but anyone who imagines that it is definitive has swallowed a dose of glib chic whole. The discovery of the insuperable self-centeredness of human nature did not await the '70s. Neither did the national habit of self-improvement, which was going strong when Public Man Ben Franklin was its high priest. Broadly, the premise of the "me decade" view is that great numbers of people are disdaining society to pursue existence as narcissistic massage buffs, om-sayers, encounter groupies and peacocks. The type is to be found, true, but the number seems very small. A thousand...
...Ben-Gurion used to buy weapons for his underground army, the Haganah. History, he said later, would record that "there was a Jewish woman who got the money that made [Israel] possible...
Golda was no sooner back from that trip than Ben-Gurion sent her on a secret mission in 1947 to Trans-Jordan's King Abdullah. She went to the desert meeting disguised as a peasant woman. On an earlier visit, Abdullah had agreed not to attack Israel. At this second meeting, he turned elusive. Why be in such a hurry to proclaim your state? "We have been waiting for 2,000 years," retorted Golda. "Is that hurrying...
After Israel proclaimed its independence, Ben-Gurion named her as the new nation's first ambassador to Moscow. He later made her Minister of Labor, then Foreign Minister, a post in which she stoutly supported his policy of tough retaliation for every act of Arab sabotage or raid. Said Ben-Gurion: "She is the only man in my Cabinet." Overall, she had a love-hate relationship with Israel's blustery, impulsive first Premier. At his behest, she Hebraized her last name from Meyerson to Meir (meaning illumination). Privately she referred to Ben-Gurion as "that...