Word: interior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interior pair of double doors closed and locked behind him. He found the outside pair of doors padlocked from the outside. And only the construction crew, due to arrive at 7 a.m., had the keys...
...real news was still to come. A check of fingerprints supplied by the U.S. stunned West German officials. Declared West German Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann: "The man we captured is a big fish." Indeed he was: he was none other than Mohammed Ali Hamadei, 22, a Lebanese wanted in the U.S. for murder and air piracy in the TWA hijacking. Hamadei was allegedly one of the original two hijackers; his hooded face appeared all over the world as he and his fellow terrorists made demands from the hijacked plane. In Washington, Justice Department officials are asking that Hamadei be flown...
...definition of Jewish identity. Divisive cases have forced the Cabinet, the courts and the Knesset to grapple with the question: Who is a Jew? The latest phase of the dispute, involving the legitimacy of an American woman's conversion to Judaism, led last week to the resignation of Interior Minister Yitzhak Peretz from the Cabinet and threats from the country's religious parties to quit the coalition government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir...
...center of the controversy is Susan Miller, 43, a onetime Southern Baptist and civilian employee of the Colorado Springs, Colo., police. In 1982 she embraced Reform Judaism, adopting the Hebrew first name Shoshana. When Miller moved to Israel in 1985, the Interior Ministry questioned the validity of her conversion because it had been supervised by a Reform rabbi. Thus, said the government, Miller was not eligible for the automatic citizenship granted Jews under Israel's Law of Return...
Although only about 15% of Israelis are religiously observant, the state basically follows Orthodox precepts in such matters as marriages and conversions. They insist that a convert's training be supervised by an Orthodox teacher. Accordingly, Interior Minister Peretz told Miller to undergo an Orthodox conversion. She refused and filed suit...