Word: mapai
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...punitive raid on Mozambique's Gaza province, a key infiltration and supply route. Smith readily gave him the go-ahead. Last week the first columns of Rhodesian army trucks, carrying some 500 troops, rolled across the Mozambican border shortly after daybreak and headed toward the village of Mapai, 60 miles away. Overhead, Rhodesian air force planes provided cover, while low-flying C-47 Dakotas disgorged teams of paratroopers...
Mission Accomplished. Whether or not the warnings had their intended effect, the Rhodesians reported their mission accomplished after five days at Mapai, and packed up to return home. The joint operations command in Salisbury announced that 32 guerrillas had been killed and only one Rhodesian-a pilot who was shot down after taking off from the airstrip at Mapai. For its part, Mozambique reported that it shot down three Rhodesian planes and a helicopter, and engaged the Rhodesian forces in "heavy fighting." Minister of Combined Operations Roger Hawkins denied such claims, as well as Mozambique's announcement that...
There are currently 14 political parties represented in the Knesset, ranging from the communists--the only legal communist party in the Middle East--to the conservative Cherut party. Most parties are affiliated with one of three major political blocks: the Labor Alignment centered around Mapai and including several more strongly socialist parties as well as the Israeli Arab parties; the two religious parties, of which Mafdal is the largest and the center right block of three parties, called Likud...
Aviad Yafeh is an optimist. As party whip for Mapai, the foundation of the Rabin government, it is his duty to urge agreement on party issues. In the argumentative Knesset, this task requires an infinite reservoir of hope...
Yossi Sarid, at 35, is one of the younger members of Mapai, and does not always agree with the party leadership. He moved last year from Tel Aviv to the northern development town of Kiryat Shmons where Arab terrorists had killed 28 men, women and children earlier in the year...