Word: right
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the restrictions, the agreement gave the guerrillas what they wanted most: the right to pass through Lebanon on the way from their bases in Syria to strike at Israel. In a show of cooperation, the guerrillas quickly departed from the areas in southeastern Lebanon where they had seized a number of villages and outposts in an effort to gain control over the Bekaa Valley road, now dubbed the Arafat Trail, which runs from Syria toward Israel...
...Israelis matched Nasser mood for mood. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan urged that Israel ought to take action in the Lebanese crisis. "We have a right to play a role," he told colleagues privately, implying that Israel should not allow the guerrillas to gain an upper hand in Lebanon. "We are the only power in the Mediterranean that can. Let's not play games. We must decide whom to help and then use our forces to change the political picture...
...settle at least some of the issues that have made Europe a divided continent since the end of World War II. More than at any time since the Cold War began 23 years ago, European leaders seem convinced that some progress is possible, and that the time is right to reach...
Like all magic, the attraction of the great city is, in the end, beyond analysis and beyond definition. Marshall McLuhan and the late Frank Lloyd Wright may have been right in arguing that the city should be replaced by smaller communities. But men, alas and thank God, are never strictly practical. Until people are known by numbers alone, the great city will continue to exist. F. Scott Fitzgerald was speaking of Manhattan, but he might just as well have been talking of London or Paris-or Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon or Justinian's Constantinople. Looking at it from afar...
...committee investigator, rows of sullen boys often sit shoulder to shoulder all day on rows of wooden benches, getting up only for meals and a brief recreation period. With no place to put violent youngsters, authorities are forced to turn them loose-and compulsory attendance laws send them right back to school...