Word: roading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suicide mission left a grisly trail of carnage along Israel's main coastal highway from Haifa to Tel Aviv. Slipping ashore from the Mediterranean on the afternoon of the Sabbath, the terrorists hijacked two buses filled with tourists and sightseers, took them on a wild ride down the road toward Tel Aviv, shooting along the way at everyone in sight, and finally destroyed one bus in an orgy of fire and death. Official statistics put the dead at 37 (all but a few of them civilians, among them at least 10 children) and 76 wounded-a toll that exceeded...
...lost on the Egyptian front -and by a Pentagon report to the effect that the war on the Egyptian front was not proceeding in favor of Israel. He must have heard too that Dayan had collapsed and wept, in front of all the foreign press correspondents, saying that the road to Tel-Aviv was open...
...from the Pentagon, provided until this moment by the American satellite. The United States was only too willing to supply her with this because the satellite had shown that the fighting on the Egyptian front was not in Israel's favor, and because Dayan had admitted that the road from Sinai to Tel-Aviv now lay open...
...three-hour session, during which we agreed on .six points, one of which was that Egyptian-Israeli talks for a disengagement of forces and a return to the lines of Oct. 22 would start at Km. 101 on the Cairo-Suez road. The talks were held -under U.N. supervision. But they were very protracted. I left at the time for Algiers to attend the Arab Summit Conference, and when I came back, the negotiations still hadn't got anywhere. I asked [Chief of Staff Mohammed Abdel] Gamassy to suspend them. "I am not prepared," I said, "to engage...
...lame-duck Governor, New Mexico's Jerry Apodaca looks suspiciously like a healthy road runner. Apodaca, 43, has spent the past six weeks chugging through the hills [ near the executive mansion, trying to get in shape for the Boston Marathon on April 17. "Monday through Friday I run eight miles a day and on the weekend I do ten miles a day-except when I'm getting tired," says the Governor, a veteran jogger and former running back at the University of New Mexico. Apodaca's longest previous race was a 13-miler...