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...frequently, volatile Israeli fans show their displeasure by stoning, beating up and even chasing the refs with knives and axes. After one stormy game, Referee Julius Josephson had to take refuge in an army camp to escape a man hunt by seven carloads of irate spectators. Referee Shimon Chogeg, co-owner of a sports shop, was less fortunate. Incensed by one of his decisions, a gang of fans bombed his shop, causing $2,000 damage. Says Chogeg: "I've been a referee for seven years and every Saturday I've seen violence. Even the ushers threaten...
...deliberation the high court's five judges last week unanimously accepted the Israeli government's view that Lansky was a threat. American authorities had accumulated enough evidence to prove Lansky a criminal, the judges ruled, however minor his actual proven crimes. More than that, wrote Chief Judge Shimon Agranat, a Louisville, Ky. native, in the 83-page precedent-setting decision, "the particular phenomenon of organized crime as it has developed in the U.S. has not yet struck root here in Israel. Heaven forbid that we should encourage opening a door...
...American tourists flooding the country? In one week last month, nine relatives from the U.S., four close friends and two friends of distant cousins were in Israel. With jumbo jets disgorging hundreds at a time, and more than 100 flights per day going in and out, Transport Minister Shimon Peres complains, "We prepared for 3,000 tourists a day. We did not expect 10,000." Tourism in the occupied territories, from
Israel ties no strings to its aid packages, but it obviously counts on harvesting good will. Says International Cooperation Director Shimon Amir in Jerusalem: "We hope that the Africans will see us as we really are and not as Arab propagandists paint us." Apparently the hope is realistic. In the United Nations and the Organization for African Unity, Black African delegates pay only lip service to Arab-sponsored resolutions that call on Israel to return captured territories...
...Nasser had been well aware of this dilemma. A few years ago, he told a British biographer, David Wynne-Morgan: "I categorically do not want to go to war with Israel. But any Arab leader who says so will be out the following morning."When Israeli Trans port Minister Shimon Peres heard of the Egyptian President's death, he spoke in a similar vein: "Nasser had experienced enough shocks of war to be careful in the future. His successor may not be so careful...