Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inevitably recalled the demonstrations in which several hundred Columbia students-joined by many others after the police raid-demanded that the gym not be built on park land and that community residents not be limited to separate facilities...
...Formula One's start to practice. Running through their gears, these cars wail like air-raid sirens going at full blast. They will average over 120 mph on this course with its 11 curves and two long straights. Watching these cars run their laps is like seeing five out of every 100 frames of a motion picture; a series of loud flashes with little continuity and a great deal of suspense between glimpses. I won't know the overall story of the race until I read it in the next day's paper...
...anger of Bet She'an, and of all Israel, was mingled with shame and horror, particularly following the discovery that one of the four bodies burned was that of an Israeli victim of the raid, a Moroccan Jew who had immigrated to Israel a decade ago. At the graveside ceremony, Israel's chief rabbi, Shlomo Goren, declared with suppressed emotion that the desecration of bodies, even those of Israel's enemies, was prohibited by religious laws. Some clearly agree with Truck Driver Zada David Cohen, who said sadly, "Now everybody will think Israel is barbarian...
...They listened hi cold fury as Yasser Arafat at the United Nations (TIME, Nov. 25) purportedly offered them an "olive branch" -but budged n6t an inch from his position that Israel must be replaced by a secular Palestinian state for both Arabs and Jews. The Bet She'an raid chillingly reinforced the conviction of most Israelis that there is no hope of compromise with the fedayeen groups. At the U.N., a spokesman for the P.L.O. -whose ranks include the group that made the raid on Bet She'an-asserted that his organization did not "feel any embarrassment...
...Labor-dominated coalition government easily won a confidence vote, 63 to 42; to demonstrate the Premier's intent, Israeli police moved into the West Bank to arrest and deport four Arafat sympathizers, including Arab Editor Ali Khatib, 54. At the same time, Israeli forces carried out a helicopter raid into Lebanon; they captured the headman of a village reportedly sympathetic to the fedayeen and took him back to Israel for interrogation...