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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, members of his own Likud coalition begged Begin not to go to Oslo. As Israeli Newspaper Columnist Amos Keinan put it, Begin's attendance at a peace celebration without a peace was "like celebrating the brith mila [Jewish circumcision ritual] while the baby is not yet born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Alone in Oslo | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

Architects for the MBTA have submitted several versions of the proposal to the Urban Mass Transit Authority (UMTA), Mila Dixon, special assistant for communications for the Public Information Office of the MBTA, said yesterday...

Author: By Joseph H. Yeager, | Title: MBTA Proposes Square Renovation | 1/7/1977 | See Source »

...guerrilla who rose from a peasant background to become commander in chief of the N.P.A. He had been arrested only the week before-with humiliating ease -while asleep at his family's rural home. Buscayno was visiting his two-week-old daughter (named Malaya, "free") and his wife Mila, who had been released from detention in June and apparently served as an unwitting lure. Army soldiers closed in at 3 a.m. and Buscayno surrendered without a fight. He walked out to be photographed with smiling army officers and even Marcos himself, who arrived to interrogate the prisoner personally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHILIPPINES: Operation Scorpio | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...late 1940s, Mila Brener and Ya'acov Meridor would have seemed the least likely candidates imaginable for the job of rescuing the sinking British shipbuilding industry. Both men were then Zionists fighting British forces in Palestine-the Russian-born Brener as skipper of a blockade-busting refugee ship, the Polish-born Meridor as deputy commander of the bomb-wielding Irgun underground and sometime inmate of British prison camps in Kenya and Eritrea. But last week, Brener and Meridor's little-known Haifa-based firm, Maritime Fruit Carriers, completed placement of roughly $700 million in orders and options...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Israeli Odd Couple | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

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