Word: perese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Not everyone was cheering. Even as Spinola was announcing Lisbon's new policy, the liner Infante Dom Henrique pulled out of Lourengo Marques with 1,100 tearful whites and their personal possessions. Airlines flying from Mozambique to Portugal were reported booked up until October. Those who have fled, either...
Israel has never been in the habit of turning the other cheek to fedayeen raids. Far more customary has been instant retaliation, delivered via ground and air and often focused on the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon that have been fertile breeding grounds for fedayeen. But following the June 24...
Whoever holds the Defense portfolio in Israel's Cabinet must plan the defensive and offensive postures of a state with perhaps the most insecure borders in the world. In support of that awesome mandate, he must also make periodic shopping trips to Washington to buy the American weapons that...
Dynamic and eloquent, Peres seems well suited for the job. In the last Cabinet of Premier Golda Meir, he served as Transport Minister. Before that, Peres had been director general in the Defense Ministry, as a protégé of Premier David Ben-Gurion, then became Deputy Minister of...
On his first U.S. visit as Defense Minister, Peres assaulted the Pentagon with a massive five-year $7.5 billion plan for U.S. military aid to Israel. After meetings with Defense Secretary James Schlesinger and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Peres described himself as "encouraged" over getting the bulk of his...