Word: flare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Item: The Gaza strip between Israel and Egypt has seen 70 Egyptians and Israelis killed in the latest flare...
...usual in such cases, the U.N. mediator, Canada's Major General Edson L. M. Burns, respected as much for his toughness as for his patience, tried to get both sides together: the familiar rhythm in these flare-ups is violence met with violence and followed by quiet. But this time the rhythm was broken. Small groups of Arab raiders carried the fight deep into Israel. Known as Al Fedayeen (Self-Sacrificers), the sneaker-shod guerrillas are recruited from Palestinian Arab refu gees, and are thus adventurers without a country who know Israel's landscape because it was once...
Covert Offensive. The incident that touched off last week's Gaza flare-up might have happened any day. Israeli soldiers, their command cars stacked with small arms, sped on routine border patrol close to an Egyptian command post. Suddenly there was shooting. Caught in the open without cover, the Israelis, guns blazing, crossed the border and took the command post. When they retired, they left three Egyptians dead...
There are half a million Jews in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, and no one knows whether or when they will be caught up in the flare of violence in North Africa. Even before last week's rioting, 80,000 North African Jews had applied for free transportation to Israel, but last week the Jewish Agency's Immigration Committee set the country's "absorptive capacity" for this year at 45,000, and doubted that it could scrape together enough money to transport even that many. Israel cannot absorb large numbers of newcomers without grave risk to its burdened...
Strongman Juan Perón changed his Foreign Minister and shook up his police command last week, leading some observers to think they smelled the smoke of a flaming crisis. One rumor even had it that Perón himself might resign the next day. But there was no flare-up, only the volcanic smoke and rumbles normal to Perón's Argentina...