Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relocated Easterner I have tried for two years to pretend that Southern California has an autumn season. I put corn on the door, wheat by the mantel -and long for a brisk wind to put "apples" in my cheeks. For all my hard work I'm rewarded with a Santa Ana wind and hot, dry, hellish weather. I think it's a cruel price to pay for a gloriously sunny January...
...guns fell silent in southern Lebanon last week, but no one could guess for how long. Under intense pressure from Washington, Jerusalem agreed to a ceasefire worked out by the U.S., and pulled its troops, trucks and armored personnel carriers back behind the Israeli border. There they remained poised, as an Israeli army officer put it, "ten minutes from the Christian enclave," should fighting resume between the Christian forces and their Palestinian enemies. Said Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, who had inspected the Israeli forces: "I am keeping my fingers crossed, praying that [the ceasefire] will hold...
...Moshe Dayan that Israeli units had to withdraw. When the Israelis ignored the demands, one senior Middle East expert explained, "We had to get very deeply involved in pushing for a pullback and cease-fire." Specifically, Washington complained to Jerusalem that American-made weapons were being used illegally in southern Lebanon...
Chairman Yasser Arafat promised that his men would not betray the agreement. Said Arafat: "We are prepared to assist the Lebanese army in taking up positions in southern Lebanon...
...question now is whether the cease-fire can be extended long enough to bring peace to an embattled area that has been turned into a no man's land by the on-again, off-again fighting. Correspondent Dean Brelis and TIME'S Abu Said Abu Rish toured southern Lebanon last week. Their report...