Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tempered this by cautioning that "it is not fair to overly criticize" Begin because prior Israeli governments had done similar things. Meanwhile, 20 Arab states demanded a U.N. investigation. Begin retorted that "we stand on the right of Jews to li ve in any part of the land of Israel" ? which in his view includes the West Bank...
...thrall of the office is extraordinary. One senses it in unsingular things. For instance, I never saw so many lawns being cut at the same time. The smell of newly mown grass drifted out of the hills onto the flat land and overpowered the senses. There were American flags on the houses of the meanest and most ageless old recluses of my boyhood. The place was taut with pride. There was something touching in the spontaneity...
...lesson Egypt wanted to teach Gaddafi. But at week's end, the Libyan-based Arab Revolutionary News Agency insisted that Egyptian MiGs were striking targets that stretched from the Mediterranean to some 250 miles south of Tobruk. The attacks, charged a Libyan spokesman, were "in preparation for a land offensive on Libya." Boasting that Gaddafi's forces had downed eight Egyptian warplanes, the spokesman then warned: "If this unjustifiable aggression is not stopped, the Libyan forces will retaliate strongly in the depth of Egypt." Officials in Cairo at first accused Libya of inventing "imaginary raids", but then admitted...
...surprise. Primarily, his action was aimed at heading off a right-wing challenge from the newly formed Rhodesian Action Party (R.A.P.), led by a dozen M.P.s who defected from Smith's Rhodesian Front Party earlier this year. The M.P.s resigned over an amendment to the longstanding Land Tenure Act that contained the Smith government's first important, if belated concessions on segregation. The R.A.P. is determined to limit the number of blacks who may vote and to restrict their political rights to the tribal homelands This hard-line stance has a strong appeal to white voters. But most...
...Soviet Union likes to boast that it is the land of the future. Yet in the one technology most essential for industrial and scientific progress, the country is far behind. Western experts believe Soviet computer development trails the U.S.'s by three to ten years, depending on the segment of technology, and the gap is not closing...