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...origins of the nuclear bomb project date back to Israel's birth. Atomic scientists were encouraged by Chaim Weizmann, Israel's first President and a chemist of international repute. Israeli nuclear experts produced low-grade uranium from phosphate in the Negev and developed an efficient technique for producing heavy water. In 1953, Israel, in exchange for these processes, was allowed to study France's nuclear program and participate in its Sahara tests. Four years later, France gave Israel its first nuclear reactor. Later, the French also helped with the design of Israel's Dimona Atomic Research Community in the Negev...
...Security Council session, the Arab participants included a representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization, invited to act as spokesman for the West Bankers. Israeli Ambassador Chaim Herzog also decided to attend-after Washington exerted pressure on Jerusalem to alter its longstanding policy of refusing any face-to-face meetings with P.L.O. members. Thus for the first time ever, Israeli and P.L.O. delegates sat down together in the Security Council. Herzog carefully ignored P.L.O. Observer Zehdi Labib Terzi. Terzi interrupted the Israeli frequently on points of order and referred to Israel as the "Zionist entity...
Syria successfully diverted world attention to this month's Middle East debate in the Security Council, while pursuing imperialistic aims in Lebanon, Chaim Herzog, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations told an audience of 200 in the Science Center yesterday...
...with all the privileges of a member state. Thus a Palestinian delegation, led by the P.L.O.'s "Foreign Minister," Farouk Kaddoumi, made the fourth for mal appearance in U.N. proceedings since Yasser Arafat's triumphal arrival at the U.N. the fall of 1974. Also as expected, Israel's Ambassador Chaim Herzog made good on his boycott threat if the P.L.O. was admitted. The U.S. was thus left alone to defend both Israel and its own Middle East policy...
...Israel's U.N. Ambassador Chaim Herzog reported last week that approximately a brigade of Cuban troops-usually about 3,000 men-has been with the Syrian army facing Israel on the Golan Heights for two years. This even though Fidel Castro's government last July formally disavowed the export of revolution...