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...DIED. LEONARDUS BENYAMIN (BENNY) MURDANI, 71, Indonesian general who plotted the 1975 invasion of East Timor; in Jakarta. A lifelong soldier, Murdani rose to prominence as a member of Indonesia's ?lite parachute battalion during the 1962 invasion of then Dutch-controlled West Papua. The attack on East Timor and subsequent occupation sparked a guerrilla war and led to the deaths of some 200,000 East Timorese over two decades. Jakarta withdrew its forces after a U.N. supervised referendum in 1999 in which the onetime Portuguese colony voted overwhelmingly for independence...
...When he arrives, we'll ask him if it is his first visit." BENYAMIN ELON, Israeli Minister of Tourism, who has been actively promoting the country to American Christians, on the Second Coming of Christ
While Kahane was alive, Kach was the natural home for Jewish extremists. But after his 1990 assassination in New York City, the group splintered badly. Kahane's son Benyamin formed an offshoot, Kahane Chai (Kahane Lives), and took many of the original Kach activists with him to settlements in the West Bank, where he preaches--less charismatically--the same message his father did. While the group frequently harasses Palestinians and is suspected of having murdered several, its core activity is inciting Israeli Jews, touching off noisy demonstrations that often make the TV news...
Once one of the world's most visible leaders, Begin now lives like a hermit in a 3 1/2 room apartment on Zemach Street, two blocks from the home of his son Benyamin. He sees his three children (the third, Leah, works as a ground hostess for El Al), nine grandchildren and a few old friends, but no one else. He spends his days reading and talking on the telephone, which he often answers himself. An Israeli diplomat who recently called his home found him well informed and alert...
...that they would also investigate other possibilities-equally without proof: the masked gunmen were Muslim fundamentalists or members of the Palestine Liberation Organization, who might have attacked the college to embarrass Israel and exacerbate Arab-Jewish tensions. Prime Minister Menachem Begin termed the attack a "loathsome crime." Brigadier General Benyamin Ben-Eliezer, coordinator of Israeli operations in the occupied territories, declared, "We will spare no effort and do whatever has to be done in order to find the murderers...