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Word: levies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israelis found De Gaulle's maneuvers too much to bear. Students staged mass demonstrations before the French embassy in Tel Aviv. One poster showed a De Gaulle-nosed poodle sniffing a mongrel sporting an Arab headdress. The caption: HE SMELLS OIL. In the Knesset, Premier Levi Eshkol condemned France's expressed reasons for the embargo (Israeli "aggression") as a "mendacious libel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Bubbling, But Not Yet Boiling | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

Everything Except Aircraft. De Gaulle's embargo was in turn blasted as "a one-sided and indefensible act," by Premier Levi Eshkol, who called a Cabinet meeting for this week to consider an appropriate response. Still, some Israelis found a silver lining. The embargo makes more palatable to voters the $2.3 billion "war budget to prevent war" that Finance Minister Zeev Sha-ref presented to the Knesset last week. And it will likely produce millions of dollars in new funds from Jews around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: MIDDLE EAST: MOSCOW'S PEACE OFFENSIVE | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...Israel accused Lebanon, which had served as the gunmen's point of departure, of harboring the terrorists. At a meeting in Jerusalem, senior cabinet ministers split over whether to raid Beirut airport or attack one of three guerrilla camps that the Israelis claim are located in Lebanon. Premier Levi Eshkol cast his vote with the hardliners: it would be Beirut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE RISKS OF REPRISAL | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...fedayeen terrorism, Israel quickly blamed Lebanon. The terrorists, said a Tel Aviv statement, had flown to Athens from Beirut's airport, and belonged to a group of Arab saboteurs based in Lebanon. "The mark of Cain is on the heads of the perpetrators," declared Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol. The Middle East has learned to take such Israeli warnings seriously, and Lebanon braced for some sort of reprisal. It came within 48 hours, but on a scale no one would have dared predict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: ATTACK ON BEIRUT: ISRAEL'S BIGGEST REPRISAL | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...LEVI STORE THAT OFFERS MORE 157 sizes in all...SHORT...MEDIUM...TALL...XTALL. No matter what your color, size, style or fit, If it's LEVIS--WALKER...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Gifts For Each and Everyone | 12/12/1968 | See Source »

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