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...that barren South Atlantic archipelago, the Prime Minister was moved to tears as she honored Britain's fighting men, living and dead, whose victory over an Argentine occupying force had lifted Britain's spirits and Thatcher's own political fortunes. Her supporters cheered the 8,000-mile journey, which began shrouded in secrecy until her rugged Hercules transport plane touched down on the new airstrip at Port Stanley, the capital. Thatcher called it her "personal pilgrimage." Her adversaries called it a crass political ploy, calculated to appeal to British nationalism and boost the Prime Minister...
...sense of urgency characterizes the whole operation. Dekel approached a small building contractor last year, telling him, "I have something to offer you, something that can make you a big builder." Later, in the West Bank town of Qalqilya, Dekel showed the contractor a barren hill a mile north of town. He explained that the government controlled 62½ acres there, and would let the contractor have them for $14,000 per acre, about one-twentieth of what the land would cost in the nearby Israeli towns of Kefar Sava and Ra'ananna. He added, "If you will build...
...West Bank is changing as quickly as a stage set. Scarcely a month ago, there was nothing but rocks, a few tractors and some foundations at a place called Tzavta, near Qalqilya. When TIME Correspondent David Halevy visited Tzavta again last week, he found a newly built 3½ -mile road, ten cottages nearing completion and another 70 on the way. A makeshift factory was turning out building blocks and iron rods, and four large cranes were busy day and night moving prefabricated materials to the building sites. Here, as elsewhere in the West Bank, the labor force was local...
Originally, the Lebanon venture was designed to create a 25-mile butter zone north of the Israeli border cleansed of the PLO. Israelis accepted this goal unanimously, or almost. When the Begin government decided to push through to Beirut, opposition made itself heard. What right did Israel have to play policeman for the entire Middle East? For the first time, the Jewish state had initiated a conflict, and the survival of Israel was not even at stake...
Determined not to let the victory escape them the Huskie two-milers easily took first, second and put the contest out of the Crimson's reach. And with the meet already decided, Harvard took the mile relay, while Northeastern won the 2-mile...