Word: shimon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attack Israel, while Israeli forces have retaliated by bombing, shelling and raiding Lebanese villages that they claim have provided the Palestinians with shelter. In the past year, more than 100 Lebanese civilians have been killed or wounded while 58 Israelis have been killed by Palestinian guerrillas. Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres last week accused Lebanon of letting more Palestinians enter the country from Syria armed with Soviet-built antitank and antiaircraft missiles...
...Soviets finally left the same day. Israel has complained to the U.N. for weeks about territorial violations by Soviet sweepers and helicopters, and is keeping in touch with Washington on the spraying incident. Clearly in no mood to take a hosing from the Russians, Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres observed: "Our boats, being used to fire, will not give up in the face of water...
...barely speak Hebrew after 22 years in Israel. Many military men were troubled by the key role that a civilian with a U.S. passport was playing in their country's defense. Israel's Connecticut Yankee has survived, however, and not just because Dayan has been replaced by Shimon Peres, a Schwimmer champion for years. Pressed by mounting criticism and Dayan's maneuvering, Schwimmer decided just before the October war to reveal I.A.I.'s balance sheet for the first time-and the figures clearly showed smart management. Since 1968, export sales had risen to an estimated...
...that have been fertile breeding grounds for fedayeen. But following the June 24 attack on the Israeli seacoast town of Nahariya that cost four Israeli and three Arab commando lives, there was no response-possibly in deference to President Nixon's Moscow trip, possibly because Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres was in Washington, D.C., shopping for new weapons...
...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 account for most of Israel's military strength. Last week Moshe Dayan's successor as Defense Minister, Shimon Peres, 51, made his first shopping trip to Washington...