Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...placed on diversifying the structure of the agricultural sector. The revolutionary planners are now pushing citrus fruit production. In the last three years, Cubans have planted twice as many citrus trees on the Isle of Pines and in the wsetern province of Pinar del Rio as there are in Israel--one of the world's largest fruit exporters. These trees are now beginning to yield the first heavy crops of oranges, lemons and grapefruit...
Cuban planners, however, still lack expertise in plotting out the tedious details necessary for carrying through vast development schemes. And while Cuba does plant twice as many citurs trees as Israel, she soon discovers that they were planted too close together, which means that the productivity will be slightly lower...
...London that he has other places to go if they do not give him what he wants. As for the Israelis, Hussein told the Russians that he is willing to make contact with them through a third party and do some good old-fashioned horse trading-a proposal that Israel had already rejected as insufficient...
...Pipes. Attracted by ads in the Israeli press and in the Observer of London, some 5,000 volunteers from 28 different countries traveled to Israel at their own expense over a two-year period to help professional archaeologists in a massive excavation of Masada. During the two-week stint allowed to each of the amateur archaeologists, they rose at 4:30 a.m. and worked ten-hour days in temperatures that ranged from below freezing to more than 90° F. The volunteers lived at the base of Masada in tents that were occasionally blown away by fierce desert winds, used...
...each other's notes, both confidently predicted that the left would make impressive gains. Come election day, it turned out to be the conservatives that triumphed at the polls. On another occasion, the Friendly bylines were inadvertently switched by the Trib, putting Senior momentarily in Nigeria, Junior in Israel. And then there was that day last month when Junior managed to produce two bylined pieces for an edition while Senior contributed one. "That's the best we've done so far," says Senior...