Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successful raid would have deterred Nasser. He has publicly written off Egypt's oil refineries and installations along the Suez, which have been heavily damaged by Israeli artillery, and has ordered the evacuation of Port Said. He also promised last week that the shelling would go on until Israel's fortifications along the canal are destroyed...
Search for a Policy. If Nasser is undeterred, the threat of Israeli might has had more effect on Lebanon, which has tried to prevent fedayeen guerrillas from raiding Israel across its border. Two weeks ago, the Lebanese government resigned amid widespread rioting that followed a clash between security forces and a group of fedayeen. Last week Lebanese politicians were still trying to put together a new government. They were also seeking a policy that would mollify the guerrillas without bringing on Israel's wrath-particularly since Charles de Gaulle's pledge to protect Lebanon from an Israeli invasion...
...Lebanese army will find it difficult to control the 1,000 guerrillas camped on the lower slopes of Mount Hermon. The guerrillas are determined, in the words of the Palestine Liberation Organization, to "operate from every Arab position around the occupied homeland" -by which they mean Israel...
...negotiations in Washington between State Department officials and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin are more crucial. In this case, Washington's diplomats are negotiating in the presence of a third party that is, as it were, looking over their shoulders: the U.S. Jewish community, which is deeply concerned that Israel's interests might be subordinated in a search for U.S.-Soviet rapprochement...
...uncertain purposes elsewhere, May Day is catching on in the Arab world. President Nasser spoke to a workers' rally at Hilwan, outside Cairo. In Syria, the head of state, Dr. Noureddine Atassi, led the Damascus parade and shouted the battle cry against Israel: "Armed struggle is the only means to liberation!" Tiny Lebanon canceled the celebration of May Day because of its current political crisis. But in Yemen, the capital city of San'a witnessed a workers' procession in which women employed by a Chinese-built textile mill marched with the men for the first time...