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...hundred meters away, behind the crest of Bental, another of the hills, is Merom Golan, one of the 17 Israeli settlements in the Golan. Begun a month after the end of the Six-Day War, Merom Golan now has a population of 300, including 100 children. We passed homes under construction. Each house, finished or not, had its red-and-black-striped bomb shelter. When the war erupted last October, the settlement was evacuated. After four days the men returned to work the land. This year they will harvest the first fruits of the apple and plum trees...
...past 30 years, the population has soared from 18 million to 36 million. About a fifth of the country's population are now clustered in and around Cairo; many newcomers are refugees from such once-prosperous cities as Port Said and Ismailia whose homes were ruined after the Six-Day War. Cairo is so overcrowded that it is approaching what Egyptian officials call "Calcutta-ization." At least 60% of its residents have no electricity, water and sewage. A badly managed distribution system has caused long queues and high prices for staple foods...
...first step, return all of the 154-sq.-mi. "bulge" that it captured in the October war along with portions of Syrian territory captured in 1967, including Quneitra, the principal settlement of the Golan. Damascus also demands a timetable for the return of all territory it lost in the Six-Day War -a total...
...twelve similar votes on Israeli conduct since the Six-Day War. the U.S. has cast two vetoes and abstained five times; it has voted yes five times, mainly on U.N. measures disapproving such serious Israeli excursions as the shooting down of a Libyan airliner and the government-endorsed skyjacking of a Lebanese commercial plane last year...
...designate; almost the age of the state of Israel itself (26 years) separates him from 76-year-old Mrs. Meir. He is also the first nonpolitician to hold the job. He made his reputation first as armed forces Chief of Staff and the architect of Israel's smashing six-day victory over the Arabs in the 1967 war, then as Israeli ambassador to Washington from...