Word: haifa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April, the son referred to his problem once more, saying, "At the rate I'm going, I'll have over a hundred pounds of sovenirs (sic)." Many of the documents in the Poolesville trash bag came from the Nimitz. When Michael Walker was arrested aboard the carrier in Haifa, Israel, last week, 15 lbs. of classified materials were reportedly discovered concealed in a box near his bunk. He was confined and charged with espionage. Like his father, he would face a maximum term of life imprisonment if convicted on the charges...
...Kahan, 72, former justice and president (1977-83) of Israel's Supreme Court, known for his broad legal knowledge, integrity and modesty, who headed the commission of inquiry into the Israeli role in the 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees by Christian militiamen in Beirut; of a heart attack; in Haifa. The Kahan commission's exhaustive, carefully worded report assigned "personal responsibility" to Defense Minister Ariel Sharon for not anticipating and ordering measures to prevent the bloodshed and apportioned a "certain degree" of blame to Prime Minister Menachem Begin...
...spring of 1983, Tassel had shot enough photographs to allow a preliminary showing of his exhibit. "The Holy Land Then and Now," at the Semitic Museum. An expanded form of the exhibit moved to Israel in 1984, where it is currently on display at the Haifa Museum...
...filter back and threaten Israel's northern border again. Israel sometimes goes to extraordinary lengths to ensure its safety. Israeli gunboats intercepted a ferryboat on its run between Cyprus and Beirut last week and brought it to the Israeli port of Haifa. Authorities detained nine passengers, most of them Lebanese Shi'ites who had just returned from Iran. Israeli officials insist Israel will not turn southern Lebanon into a "North Bank," but Defense Minister Moshe Arens admits that a complete pullback is "going to take a little time...
...first major eruption of those long-simmering tensions came on a hot summer's day in 1959 in the squalid Wadi Salib area of Haifa, where 15,000 people, mostly Moroccans, were crammed into tenements. After a policeman wounded a Moroccan, crowds of Sephardim unleashed their pent-up anger. They pelted policemen with stones, wrecked some 25 local shops, burned two buildings and, in the process, sent a shudder through the nation...