Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crash course in statesmanship, traveling to Beijing to negotiate with Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong. Finally, in March 1959, when a bloody confrontation seemed imminent as 30,000 steadfast Tibetans rose up against Chinese rule, the Dalai Lama slipped out of his summer palace dressed as a humble soldier and set off across the highest mountains on earth. Two weeks later, suffering from dysentery and on the back of a dzo, a hybrid yak, the "Holder of the White Lotus" rode into exile in India...
...girl's death was the first of an Israeli civilian in the violence that has swept the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip since December 8. At least 140 Arabs have died, according to U.N. figures, and one Israeli soldier has been killed...
...second poster, entitled "Don't Say You Didn'tKnow," depicts a Palestinian woman being slappedby an Israeli soldier. A similar poster shows asoldier aiming his rifle at a group of women andquotes a member of the Israeli parliament assaying "If we had shot two, three, four in two orthree places, they would know we are serious...
Yesterday's deaths brought to 136 the number of Arabs who have died in four months of protests against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, according to United Nations figures. One Israeli soldier has been killed...
...TIME. Rubinger, 63, has captured so much of his country's history on film that this week's cover story on Israel and its 40th anniversary is illustrated almost entirely with his work. Perhaps inevitably, many of Rubinger's pictures mirror his own experiences as a refugee, as a soldier and as a citizen of Israel...