Word: levying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commandos stormed into the hotel with guns blazing, killing the desk clerk and a woman guest on the spot. Going from room to room, they quickly rounded up hostages and took them to the fourth floor. Among them were Kochava Levi, 30, a petite, black-haired prostitute who had ducked into the Savoy earlier to avoid a police roundup, and Avrahim Azikri, 28, an interior decorator and a guest in the hotel. "They told us if we behaved, everything would be okay," Azikri recalled later. "But when I heard the Israeli troops starting their attack, I thought it was every...
...morning, Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin was at army headquarters in Tel Aviv. Defense Minister Shimon Peres and Chief of Staff Mordecai Gur arrived soon after at Ge'ula Street to take command. Meanwhile, the Arab commandos chose Kochava Levi, who had picked up Arabic in the streets, to translate to Israeli officials their demand for a plane to take the hostages and ten Palestinians held in Israeli prisons to Damascus or Paris. Bandaging the wounded with ripped sheets and shouting the guerrillas' terms down from a fourth-floor window, Kochava emerged as the unexpected heroine of the drama...
Jews serve in top positions in a national Administration of either party. At present three members of President Ford's Cabinet are of Jewish origin: Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger (who converted to Lutheranism as a young man) and Attorney General Edward Levi. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, is also Jewish, as is Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve. Certain areas of Government employ an abundance of Jewish Americans, particularly the Departments of Justice, Labor, and Health. Education and Welfare...
...about 200 or 300 cultural leaders throughout the United States offer nominations for the Jefferson Lecture. The National Council of the Humanities, composed of 26 presidential appointees, makes the final decision on the choice of a lecturer. At the time of Freund's selection, council members included Edward H. Levi, former president of the University of Chicago and present attorney general, Hanash Gray, provost of Yale, and Martin I. Kihon, professor of Government...
...other epee bouts freshman Robert Fillman won his contest but both Levi Perry and John Hawkins lost close matches...