Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Adler gives the other side a chance. "How many of you ever got an A-plus on a composition?" Hands thrash the air. "Do you think your teachers were right?" After considerable debate, the consensus turns out affirmative. Sandy decides to desert the ranks of Position A. "Now, Thomas," says Adler, "you stand alone. But you can still defend yourself. You can say they're talking rot." The discussion goes back to grades. Thomas admits to having received a C. Then Garrick plunges into the fray. He wants to know if Thomas thinks his teacher was "totally subjective...
...fact, there is no prospect that either the Administration or Congress, which also has the power to cut off weapons deliveries, would go that far. Indeed, many members of Congress expressed envy and admiration for Israel's military boldness and execution. "We could have used them at Desert One," said a Republican Senator in an unkind reference to the abortive attempt to rescue the American hostages from Tehran. Quipped another Senator: "At least we know our planes work." Maryland Senator Charles Mathias may have expressed a dominant congressional view when he said, "I have no illusions that the Saudis...
Since it won its war for existence in 1948, Israel has scored a number of brilliant military successes, and it clearly added to that number last week. But while feats of arms have brought survival they have not brought peace. As the dust settled in the Iraqi desert and the fires guttered out in the smashed nuclear reactor in Tammuz, Israel was not about to be abandoned by its friends, especially the U.S. Yet there was a growing international feeling that the embattled nation must try harder to make an accommodation with its Arab neighbors if it is ever...
...Israeli Air Force had not been idle during these months of deliberation. A full-scale model of the entire reactor area had been built in a restricted part of the Sinai Desert, and a carefully selected group of the most talented Israeli pilots practiced their bombing runs until, in the words of one high-ranking officer, they knew "every tree and house" along their eventual attack route. Despite the scope of the rehearsals, the U.S. says that it did not detect the operation, either by satellite or other means. Originally, the plan called for the bombing to be carried...
...Charles Sustar, 39, whose Pentecostal church established the school in 1977, explains his position: "We completely rebel against the humanistic flavor of our public school system. Can you imagine the Children of Israel coming out of Egypt, camping on the desert, and the mothers packing lunches every day and sending their kids back to Egypt for school...