Word: jaffa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dinner was finished. Because they had eaten so well, the four children of Mr. and Mrs. Frans Bergs in the southern Dutch town of Maastricht were granted a favorite treat for dessert: big, golden Jaffa oranges from Israel. Unexpectedly, the children complained about the taste. "When we took a closer look," Mrs. Bergs said later, "we discovered small, silver-colored globules inside." The children were rushed to a hospital to have their stomachs pumped; police summoned to investigate erroneously assumed that Mr. Bergs had tried to poison his family. But Dutch health officials began a nationwide search, and by week...
...Bank and Gaza. Many experts predict that no more than 500,000 of these Palestinians-in-exile would do so. One reason is that thousands have established solid roots in Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan and elsewhere. Another is that for many Palestinians, the "homeland" is not the West Bank but Jaffa, Galilee and other areas of what is now Israel...
...Geneva might be represented by an academic of Palestinian descent teaching at an American University. No names were mentioned, but speculation centered on three potential negotiators: Edward W. Said, 42, a Jerusalem-born professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia; Ibrahim Abu Lughod, 48, a native of Jaffa who teaches political science at Northwestern; and Walid Khalidi, a Lebanese national who is a visiting professor lecturing on Middle East affairs at Harvard. Sadat said that Yasser Arafat had agreed to his proposal. The professors have denied receiving any offers...
...General Assembly recommended partition of Palestine into two states: Jewish and Arab. So we now ask today: Where is the Arab state? The Palestinians do not belong to Jordan or Syria or Egypt. They belong to Haifa, Jaffa...
...embroidered with exotic scenes; many showed Prince William, in different hues, shapes, and sizes, marching to victory atop his white prancer. Biblical scenes like "Jacob's Dream" or "The Parting of the Red Sea" were common and there were a few uncommon banners like one showing "The Storming of Jaffa," a bizarre scene with British soldiers climbing the city's walls and staring into the suspended smoke of Turkish muskets...