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Otherwise known as a post-graduate, Rand went to Northfield-Mount Hermon (Mount Hermon in the good old days) the year after his graduation from Lincoln-Sudbury (Lincoln Suds any day) for a simple reason--to get into college...
...bunkers shelled Israeli farmers in the Hula Valley below before 1967, the Golan colonists see themselves in a quasi-military role. There are no more vocal hawks in Israel today, report TIME Correspondents Marlin Levin and David Halevy, who last week toured the Golan from the foothills of Mount Hermon down to the Sea of Galilee...
...limited Israeli withdrawal. Although he is anxious for an agreement, Assad obviously is taking a hard line to prevent Arab radicals from accusing him of appeasement. Rabin says that while Israel is willing to move back considerably from its present Golan lines, it will insist that strategically important Mount Hermon remain demilitarized...
...Israeli halftrack, which had been patrolling the frontier hoping to knock out fedayeen before they could mount raids on Israeli settlements. The incident eventually provoked some of the heaviest fighting on the border in two years. In the village of Kfar Chouba, on the western slopes of Mount Hermon, fedayeen fought the Israelis stubbornly. During the past week, four fedayeen were killed and 12 wounded; the Israelis suffered 15 wounded...
...Ramadan coincided with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year's Day. There was no recurrence of open warfare, but Israeli jets did attack villages in the mountainous border region of southern Lebanon known as the Arqub. Since 1969, this area, which fans out from the slopes of Mount Hermon, has been known as "Fatahland" because Palestinian guerrillas regularly cross it from havens in Syria to infiltrate the Israeli border. In reprisal for fedayeen raids, or to deter recurrences, Israeli aircraft, artillery and armored columns have regularly punished the Lebanese countryside. Last week's bombing of Hasbaya, Rashaya Fukhar...