Word: easterne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing problem on the street is that the traditional codes revered by the Hasidim are not as deeply ingrained in what they refer to as the street's "new element." There has been an influx of younger, Middle Eastern Jews into the trade. Says one oldtime cutter: "They are aggressive, irresponsible, not steeped in tradition." Broker Pinchos Jaroslawicz, 25, made the mistake of trusting one of these new diamond workers, a young Israeli named Shlomo Tal. Jaroslawicz took along his pouch of diamonds one day in September 1977, when he went to call on Tal. The young Israeli...
...woman in Iran is to be better off than a woman in most other Middle Eastern countries. But Iran is still a deeply patriarchal society, in which a woman is seen as needing protection and separation from predatory males, her greatest purpose in life to provide her husband with a son. Under Islam, women are equal, in theory. In practice they are not. They are often literally excluded from men's society...
...settlers from all of the Sinai. Most of the area will be demilitarized; Egypt can station only a single division on the peninsula and only within 31 miles of the Suez Canal and Gulf of Suez. The U.N. will station troops along the Gulf of Aqaba and the eastern border of the Sinai. Within a nearly two-mile-wide strip on the other side of the line, Israeli forces will be limited to four battalions. The two airfields that Israel built in the Sinai will be restricted to Egyptian civilian...
...Five Eastern nuclear plants are turned off for safety checks
...aviation history by outfitting PSA stewardesses in tangerine-colored hot pants. When PSA balked at his plan to put out an in-flight magazine, he formed East/West Network, Inc. Butler gradually picked up other clients, and today the Los Angeles-based firm publishes magazines for PSA, Allegheny, Continental, Eastern, Hughes Airwest, Ozark, Pan Am, Southern, Texas International and United.* East/West figures that last year a total of 10 million passengers read the magazines each month. Combined revenues were $20 million, and profits were about $2 million...