Word: northern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trim town of white stucco bungalows, a modern shopping center and good schools, it was originally promoted by Moshe Dayan-then Defense Minister in Golda Meir's Labor government-as a potential regional metropolis of 250,000 people whose sheer size would make an Arab attack through northern Sinai impractical. Atzila Safrir, who operates a prosperous sidewalk cafe in Yamit, was infuriated by the way Jerusalem had reversed its support. "For ten years the government brainwashed me," she complained. "Now in two weeks they tell me the whole doctrine has gone down the drain. This is a sellout...
...conflict that has destroyed much of the Christian sector of East Beirut is now moving into the western sector of the city and the northern mountains, a stronghold of right-wing militia troops...
...shouldn't be at all. Not at all. Not at all. The serious issue now between Egypt and Israel is the settlements in northern Sinai. Those settlements were established by the previous government as a buffer zone so that the Gaza Strip has its peace and we have our peace. But for President Sadat it is an issue in which he says, "I can't." So now a decision will have to be taken by the Knesset. We have to obey parliament...
...accordance," as one British legal expert put it, "with the standard of civilization of the states involved." Thus district commissioners sometimes had the power to administer justice, and preventive detention laws became part of the heritage of colonialism. Emergency powers, first enacted in 1920, were given the army in Northern Ireland in 1973. But at home the British did not use martial law even during the worst days of the World Wars. Their view, at least since 1628, has been that governments must have the power to maintain order, but preferably no more power than necessary...
Armor measured white flight over a six-year period in 23 Northern and Southern cities that had court-ordered mandatory busing. They also had accessible suburbs, school districts with an enrollment of at least 20,000 students and a large minority population (more than 20%). Then he compared his figures with a projected loss of white students that would have taken place without forced busing, based on established demographic patterns of white exodus and predictable birth rates. The results were remarkably consistent...