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...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...
...AFTERMATH of the war of 1948, more than 600,000 Palestinians left or were expelled from their homes. One of these refugees was Fawaz Turki, the author of The Disinherited: Journal of a Palestinian Exile. He and his family left Haifa for Beirut where he grew up in a refugee camp and slums. His book is an intense and vivid account of what it means to be homeless, to live on international hand-outs of a few cents a day, to be "an outsider, an alien, a refugee, a burden." It fills the cold term "Arab refugee" with painful reality...
...requires the realization of rather than the denial of justice for Palestinians. The question for Americans is not whether one is "pro" or "anti" Israel, but whether one supports Israeli doves or Israeli hawks. Israeli and American Jews have to answer a simple question: Does a Palestinian born in Haifa have the right to live in Haifa at least as much as a Jew born in Moscow? Until that right is granted, there will be violence. And those of us who applaud resistances in 1776, in Nazi-occupied Europe, in Algeria and Vietnam, are in no position to reject Palestinian...