Word: haifa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Knesset in order to present a no-confidence motion. Twice before, under similar attacks, Dayan had gone to Mrs. Meir and offered to resign. Both times she refused. Last week, when he made the same gesture, she was ominously noncommittal. Chatting with Mrs. Meir at a Labor meeting, Haifa Mayor Yosef Almogi commented: "You realize that it won't end with Dayan. They're really aiming at you." Replied the Premier caustically: "You're telling...
...home. My business has gone to hell, I've got debts up to my neck, and the pay they give you for reserve service ($190 a month) doesn't cover everything when you've got three kids and a pregnant wife." Said a bank clerk from Haifa: "You can't depend on the Arabs, but we've had war, war, war It's been that way since Moses left Egypt. And here we are, leaving Egypt again...
...stock market took its biggest plunge in more than a decade, dropping 24.24 points on a single day on the Dow Jones industrial average. Officials of the New York Stock Exchange quietly circulated a contingency plan on the floor to close the market instantly if Nixon should resign. Haifa world away, a similar small omen appeared in the pages of Pravda, which for the first time began readying Soviet readers for Nixon's possible exit. In private, Soviet officials were spreading the line: "Our relations with the U.S. are based on Washington policies, not on the President...
...post was re-established in a bunker, and fresh soldiers were pouring in. Golan Heights Commander Major General Yitzhak ("Khaka") Hofi assured us: "Our forces are essentially in a mopping-up operation. The Syrians committed their entire armored force. They wanted to take the Golan and move on to Haifa...
...lifted off from Beirut International Airport bound for Baghdad. Aboard the Caravelle jet were 74 passengers and eight crew members, none expecting much more than a smooth hop to the Iraqi capital. Suddenly, Israeli Phantom jets pounced, ordering the helpless captain to fly instead to a military airbase near Haifa. He obeyed. As he told Beirut Control: "I don't want a repeat of the Libyan thing," in which Israeli jets last February shot down a Libyan airliner over the Sinai, killing 108 of the 113 aboard, after the captain refused orders to land. Within minutes, the Caravelle...