Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...events, is most likely to be Israel's big bird after next month's general election. The adroit, self-confident Peres (see box) easily won the Labor Party's nomination for Premier at a special caucus of the central committee. Yitzhak Rabin, forced to step down after disclosures that his wife had illegally maintained bank accounts in the U.S. (TIME, April 18), was among those who lifted hands in assent amid shouts of "Mazel tov [good luck], Shimon...
...resign office immediately; as head of a caretaker government, he was bound by law to stay on until a new government is formed after the May 17 elections. Sensitive to the situation, Attorney General Aharon Barak suggested a loophole in the law that would allow a caretaker to step down if the Premier were "absent from the country or temporarily unable to fulfill his duty." Rabin at first refused to take advantage of this option, which fueled rumors that he might be planning a political comeback. At week's end, however, Rabin indicated that he would take an extended...
...Premier's television speech on April 7. The previous night Yitzhak and Leah Rabin had been dinner guests of Peres and his wife Sonia, who, of course, knew about the resignation rumors. Rabin looked a little tense, a little sad, but gave no indication that he planned to step down...
...small but significant first step may have been taken in the conquest of a disease so frightening that it is enshrined in the old Lingala curse "Owa na ntolo " (May you die of sleeping sickness). At Nairobi's International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases (ILRAD), a team of scientists has managed to grow in the test tube the long, slender, infective form of the single-celled parasite Trypanosoma brucei. That feat-accomplished by Hiroyuki Hirumi, a Japanese-born American scientist, and John Doyle, a Scottish colleague-has been the aim of medical scientists for years. In the past...
...Although the thrice-married (most recently to AM MacGraw) Evans had firmly declared that "three times to bat is quite enough," Bob, 46, and Phyllis, 27, were married last week on the lawn of his Beverly Hills mansion. In a specially composed ceremony the minister sang: "Together you step from the darkness/ The sun is beginning to rise/ You are living the questions together now/ Finding answers in each other's eyes." At the conclusion, he pronounced the pair "two travelers in exploration, two hearts powerful with commitment, two souls side by side, husband and wife." Music down, fade...