Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jobs in Israel, but the labor pool is still short. Prices are being kept in line only because the government refuses to sanction wage increases; one result of this is a series of labor disputes, including a postal strike which has trapped a million pieces of mail in the Jerusalem post office. About the only problem for which there appears to be no formula is how to achieve peace. Says Golda Meir: "I don't know when peace will come. But I have no doubt that it will...
...Piper Cub joined in the search. Assuming that Pike would have sought refuge from the sun, the searchers peered into countless caves along the canyon walls. Philadelphia Seer Arthur Ford, the medium through whom Pike once claimed he had contacted his dead son, called Diane Pike in Jerusalem to tell her he had a vision of her husband, "alive but sick," in a cave not far from where she had left him. But the police insisted that they had already searched all the caves in the vicinity...
...Monday afternoon, hardly the time to set out into the blistering, arid desert. James Pike, 56, and his wife Diane, 31, hopped into their rented white Ford Cortina, armed only with two bottles of Coca-Cola, sunglasses, a small camera and a map, and drove out of East Jerusalem into the wilderness...
...usual, the trip was part pleasure, part business and part quest. For four years, Pike had been working on a new book on the historical Jesus, and he had recently agreed to make a movie on the subject with TV Star David Frost. Pike had wanted to forage in Jerusalem bookstalls, search for new meanings in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and walk, said his wife, "where Jesus walked...
...diverted plane, but there was nothing they could do without endangering the 101 passengers and 12 crew members. The plane was forced to land at Syria's new $40 million airport at Damascus. There the hijackers herded everyone off, then exploded a bomb in the cockpit. Earlier, Jerusalem came under rocket attack. Three 6-ft.-long, 50-lb., Soviet-made Katyusha missiles'exploded harmlessly in the city. In London a small bomb exploded, injuring a woman in the office of Israel's Zim shipping company. Angrily, the Israelis warned the Arabs that they cannot hope...