Word: going
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suspenseful days last week, the people of Israel wondered whether the next war might not be imminent. Israeli units were engaged in the biggest combined air, land and sea operation since the Six-Day War with the Arabs in 1967. Naval commandos were the first to go into action in the Gulf of Suez, blasting two Egyptian torpedo boats. Next, an Israeli armored unit of 150 men ferried across the gulf in landing craft, spent ten hours shooting up troops, bases and radar installations with utter impunity along a dusty strip of Egyptian coastline. Not until two days later...
...full-scale war, but far more serious than the nagging frontier clashes that sometimes go on between hostile nations for years. It involves issues that reason, self-interest and compromise could settle, yet it is wrapped in nationalistic and cultural hatreds that seem beyond resolution in this generation. Each side is backed by one of the world's two big powers and yet, while neither the U.S. nor Russia wants war in the Middle East, neither seems capable of making peace...
...York for the opening of the U.N. General Assembly, are scheduled to meet to discuss the Middle East. Even if Washington and Moscow were to devise a peace formula, Israel steadfastly refuses to recognize any settlements arranged by outside parties. "Tell Washington that we will never go along with this," Mrs. Meir says. For its part, Israel would like Washington to pressure Moscow to talk the Arabs into meeting Israel across a table. But the Arabs refuse until their territories are returned?and would probably still refuse even if Israel were to comply...
...vigorous wage-restraint law indefinitely. Then Wilson delivered a tough warning ("Every penny must be earned") that may have appealed to his nationwide TV audience but only enraged the union chiefs. "Well, the writing's on the wall, now," said T.U.C. Delegate Cyril Philips. "The Tories will go back into power next time because a lot of disillusioned people will abstain from voting...
...imposing stiff fines on offending workers and unions. In June, Wilson was forced to back down under fierce opposition both within his party and among the unions. The showdown came when Victor Feather, the T.U.C.'s earthy new chief (see box), warned that labor might just let Labor go it alone at the polls next time. Wilson is expected to call an election in the fall of 1970, or in any case before the April 1971 deadline...