Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Desalting facilities are in operation in places like Kuwait, Curaçao and Israel. In the U.S., with technical assistance from the Interior Department's Office of Saline Water, Buckeye, Ariz., and Port Mansfield, Texas, both turned to desalination after their water became too brackish. With the threat of water shortages and pollution mounting, other cities can be expected to follow suit, especially as nuclear power becomes available to make large-scale desalination projects more economical...
...particularly virulent and popular commentator for Cairo's Voice of the Arabs named Ahmed Said last week called for instant death for any Arab leader who dares to open negotiations with Israel. Though Said is a better propagandist than politician, it was a fool hardy Arab leader indeed who could ignore his warning; the sentiments are shared by a large part of the population. Trapped by their own propaganda, split once more into rival factions and disappointed in their Russian allies, the Arabs seem no closer to any form of negotiation with Israel than they were when...
...great deal about SAM's capabilities (it can fly at 2,600 m.p.h. and reach 60,000 feet) and limitations (it cannot execute sharp turns) from intelligence reports and from its performance in North Viet Nam, close study of the Sinai SAMs will give scientists invaluable information. Israel has already passed on to the U.S. some of its data about the captured SAMs...
...ponderously. But le Vieux refers as much to political vulnerability as it does to venerability. During the Middle Eastern crisis, De Gaulle was exposed as an emperor without clothes. Suddenly it turned out to be unimportant for anybody to take his advice, or even listen politely. His condemnation of Israel has left much of French public opinion outraged and many in his own party dissatisfied. Last week, by putting more barriers in the way of British entry into the Common Market, De Gaulle further alienated his European allies, who feel that Britain belongs...
...Gaulle's increasingly autocratic attitude goes down badly in the French National Assembly, where the Gaullists have a slim majority that barely managed to hold together until the summer adjournment this month. Politicians of every party, except the Communists, protested De Gaulle's condemnation of Israel. Defense Minister Pierre Messmer and Minister of State Pierre Billotte particularly deplored French policy during the crisis; so did Gaullist Coalition Partner Giscard d'Estaing, leader of the independent Republican Party. The Catholic newspaper Figaro attacked France's recent pro-Soviet votes in the United Nations. "Where does De Gaulle...