Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There had never been a case quite like it, and Israelis were understandably aghast. In a continuing police dragnet, 46 persons were arrested and interrogated; they faced charges of either spying for Syria's Deuxieme Bureau (G2) or knowing about the spy ring and not reporting it. The majority were Arabs, but four of those arrested were Jews. Most shocking of all, the leader of the ring and another prominent member were not only Jews but Sabras-native-born Israelis...
Except for a penchant for far-left politics, the ring's organizer, Ehud Adiv, 26, seemed almost the personification of the national ideal of a young Israeli. Dreamy-eyed and bushy-haired, Adiv had been born at Can Shmuel (Garden of Samuel), a kibbutz near the Mediterranean coast below Haifa. A paratroop sergeant in the Six-Day War, he had rescued wounded soldiers under fire during the battle for East Jerusalem...
...with instructions to pass on further information on Israeli military operations. But Israel's intelligence agency-commonly called Shin Bet from its Hebrew initials-has infiltrated radical groups. And when Shin Bet learned that Adiv's organization was planning a move of some sort, it smashed the ring...
...WEISSE RING, AUSTRIA...
...White Ring is a complex of four villages (Lech, Zürs, St. Anton and St. Christoph) linked by lifts. Besides visiting all four, serious skiers can sample everything from the vertiginous Kandahar run to the gentle lower Krieger-horn, plus liberal helpings of Gemütlichkelt. Dances get under way in larger hotels at 5 p.m. A week's stay: around...