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...Wars), lawyer and businessman, he rose to prominence during two tours as director of military intelligence (1948-50 and 1959-62) and then as Israel's first military governor of the occupied West Bank. Israelis know him best for the informed military commentaries he provided during the 1967 Six-Day War. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1918, he immigrated to Palestine in 1935 but returned to England to study at Cambridge. In 1939 he enlisted in the British army, and continued his military career in the Israeli armed forces after the birth of Israel in 1948. Herzog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Surprise Vote | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

...Efficacy Committee, working with the College, which pays its operating expenses, also offers a six-day seminar in the spring and fall for minority upperclassmen...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Freshman Minorities Praise Weekend Achievement Seminar | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

...bizarre rebellion ended as suddenly as it had begun. But when Lieut. Colonel Sigifredo Ochoa Pérez gave up his six-day mutiny against Salvadoran Minister of Defense General José Guillermo Garcia last week, the damage had been done. The incident highlighted what many analysts feel is a troubling obstacle to U.S. aims in the embattled Central American nation: a lack of discipline on the part of the Salvadoran military. All too often, its leaders seem to be more concerned with internal rivalries than with fighting left-wing guerrillas united under the banner of the Farabundo Mart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: A Battle of Military Egos | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

...said the Lord to Abraham, as recorded in Genesis 17: 8, and the descendants of Abraham remembered. In 1948 the Jews of Palestine seized control of part of the ancient land of their forefathers and established the state of Israel. In 1967, as a result of the Six-Day War, Israel occupied those portions of the ancient regions of Judea and Samaria that lie in the West Bank of the Jordan River, territory that had been ruled by Jordan. Though the future status of the occupied area remained unresolved, the Israelis proceeded in the next 15 years to build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Israel's Great Land Rush | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...signing of the 1969 Cairo Agreement, which allowed the P.L.O. to establish its rule in Southern Lebanon and the refugee camps, had been a violation of the 1949 armistice between the two countries. Kimche also reminded the Lebanese that their government had supported Egypt, Syria and Jordan during the Six-Day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: False Optimism | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

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