Word: eshkol
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...Scandal." By last week the uproar had boiled into a potential threat to Premier Levi Eshkol's coalition government. As the result of an Orthodox campaign abroad, Eshkol has been inundated with protests from Jews in 21 countries. At home, police guarded the domiciles of some pathologists who had received threats, and scores of sick were refusing to enter hospitals for fear of dissection if they died...
...soon as he learned of the story, Israeli Minister of Justice Jacob Shapiro ordered all copies of Bui confiscated and the two editors thrown in jail-nominally for espionage, but actually because Premier Levi Eshkol feared mention of any link between Arab Morocco and Israel. Eshkol had privately told a group of editors, not including Bui's, that Israel had helped organize the Moroccan secret service in return for fair treatment of Moroccan Jews. Later, Eshkol said, the Moroccans had asked Israel to help kidnap Ben Barka, but Israel had refused to commit itself. Even so, if word...
...border disputes that have grown in recent weeks to dangerous levels. For the Israelis, however, trust must equally reside in Israel's highly mechanized and vigorous army, without which the 19-year-old nation might long since have been pushed into the sea. Last week Premier Levi Eshkol came under heavy pressure at home to unleash his mailed fist in retaliation for what is interpreted in Jerusalem as nothing less than Syrian brinkmanship...
...Worst. Israel's defense forces are built to meet the worst possible combination that could be put against them, but no one expects a combined, integrated offensive by all its neighbors right now. Though Israel is far mightier than it was a decade ago at Sinai, Premier Eshkol still vows to investigate every avenue of diplomacy before striking another punitive blow against terrorism. At home, Eshkol is burdened with an economic recession and the highest rate of unemployment (9%) in more than a decade. In the U.N., he has already been censured by the Security Council for Israel...
...Regrettable" Target. Why did Israel attack Jordan rather than Syria, which was the guerrilla home base? That was what Israel's angry opposition parties demanded of Eshkol after the invasion. In a special parliamentary debate, Eshkol ticked off 14 major acts of sabotage carried out from Jordan in the past year, climaxed by a land-mine explosion that killed three Israeli troops on Nov. 12. "It is regrettable," said Eshkol, "that this particular act of aggression came from Jordan." But since it did, he picked Jordan as his target. "No country where the saboteurs find shelter and through whose...