Word: lavon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resigning in a huff last January after his coalition Cabinet had exonerated former Defense Minister Pinhas La von of responsibility for a 1954 security scandal (TIME, Nov. 7). After pushing through his seventh resignation from the post of Prime Minister, Ben-Gurion forced his Mapai Party to dismiss Lavon as secretary-general of the powerful Histadrut labor federation. The vendetta promised to provide plenty of campaign fireworks. Instead, there was a closing of Mapai ranks. Ben-Gurion refused to discuss the Lavon case on the hustings. And Lavon himself, instead of campaigning against Ben-Gurion, simply faded from the scene...
...hand, the throttle in the other, and he doesn't know the rules of the road." Hot-rodding across the water, many young boatmen have towed water skiers into stumps or other boats; one small lake near San Antonio noted one death per week last summer. At Lake Lavon, near Dallas, speed demons and water skiers thundered down on so many defenseless fishermen that a virtual state of war existed. Shaken, splashed and enraged, the fishermen took to throwing heavy plugs and razored hooks at the water skiers; driven beyond restraint, one fisherman stood in his boat with...
...Israel gloomily contemplated the prospect of holding new elections to resolve the impasse, Manhattan Jewish Newsletter, an anti-Ben-Gurion and anti-Zionist publication, printed an article headlined "The Truth About the 'Lavon Affair,' " written by a "trustworthy" special correspondent, the Rev. Humphrey Walz, a Presbyterian minister from Indiana. Walz maintains that in 1954 Israel was worried at the growing friendly relations between Egypt and the U.S. and, particularly, by a contemplated U.S. aid program to Nasser of $50 million...
Israeli journalists discovered that orders for the sabotage had been signed by Defense Minister Lavon. and threatened to publish the news in a British newspaper. Lavon resigned, but later contended that his signature was a forgery. The article concludes: 'The dread secret of Israeli officers ordering the bombing of U.S. Government installations in Egypt is too embarrassing to admit. And Ben-Gurion was determined to protect the forgers and revenge himself on Lavon for challenging his authority...
...resume his post of Prime Minister if the coalition leaders would knuckle under. But. with all his customary steel and stubbornness, he still intends to keep alive the issue that has sundered the country for six years. ''In essence. I know I am right about the Lavon Affair." said Ben-Gurion. "I hope for a chance to prove...