Word: menachem
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...search intensified once again earlier this year, the body was found and tidy explanations appeared. "The whole matter looks like a play with a perfect script," said Simon Wiesenthal, who has tracked down more than 1,100 Nazis in a 38-year campaign. "Mengele lives and breathes," said Menachem Rusek, director of Israel's police unit investigating Nazi crimes, before flying to Sao Paulo last week. "He and his relatives have already managed to play every sophisticated trick in the book to conceal his identity...
Like her grandfather, former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, 17- year-old Ayelet Milo is a determined vote getter. At the Miss Israel pageant in Tel Aviv last week, she got enough of the judges' votes to make her runner- up. The child of Begin's daughter Hassia, Ayelet hesitated to enter the competition until she got encouragement from her grandfather. During the grind of dieting and exercise before the contest, her spirits were kept high by daily telephone pep talks from the reclusive Begin, who did not, however, attend the event. As runner-up, Ayelet...
...Palestinian refugees by Christian militiamen in Beirut; of a heart attack; in Haifa. The Kahan commission's exhaustive, carefully worded report assigned "personal responsibility" to Defense Minister Ariel Sharon for not anticipating and ordering measures to prevent the bloodshed and apportioned a "certain degree" of blame to Prime Minister Menachem Begin...
Although Reagan has agreed to visit the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp also, he will still go to Bitburg. Menachem Rosensalt, founding chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, which represents 5000 siblings of survivors, called Reagan's cemetery vacation plans a "calculated insult...
...Carter, concluding the accords between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was the high point of a frustrating four years in the White House. For our first fundamentalist President, bringing the leaders of two holy land nations together for un-precedented face-to-face negotiation was more than just a political maneuver. The quest for peace in the land of the Bible has been a special concern of Carter's, a concern that outlasted his pay in the oval office...