Word: syria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jewish pilgrims a day travel to Hebron to visit the Tomb of the Patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob), which for 700 years has been an Arab mosque. Jewish tourists literally swarm over the Golan Heights every weekend. On 9,211-ft. Mount Hermon, in what used to be Syria, a group of enterprising kibbutzniks plans to open a ski resort that might just be called the Shalom Slalom...
...isolated from Lebanese daily life in modern Sidon, hundreds of them have left to take jobs in Saudi Arabia and such oil-rich sheikdoms as Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, sending part of their paychecks back to their families. Several hundred others have gone by secret mountain trails into Syria, where they undergo training with El Fatah or one of the other terrorist groups that send commandos into Israel to avenge their fathers' sufferings by murder, arson and sabotage. At least four of the camp's sons died in raids last month alone. This activity is a source...
...said, no longer recognizes Egyptian claims to the Gaza Strip or Jordan's claims to Arab Palestine, since both areas had been taken by the Arabs in 1949 "as the result of military aggression and occupation." Nor will the Golan Heights overlooking Upper Galilee be returned to Syria, whose guns had threatened "havoc and destruction for our villages in the valley." To ensure passage of Israeli shipping through the Strait of Tiran and the Suez Ca al, Israel also intends to maintain some sort of control over the Sinai Peninsu la-which, Eshkol suggested, might be turned into...
...during the disastrous Greek-Turkish war in 1922. As regimes changed, his antimonarchist father, a professor of law, was hired or fired. The young poet lived as a diplomat or political exile in a bewildering succession of places-Albania, Crete, South Africa, Egypt, Italy, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq. During World War II, when the Germans and Italians occupied Greece, he remained with his government in exile. From 1957 until 1961, he was Greece's Ambassador to London. He once wrote...
Incapable of Attack. Moscow has indeed sent replacements for two-thirds of the 255 jet fighters-mostly MIG-15s and MIG-17s-that were destroyed in Egypt and Syria during the war, but MIGs are defensive weapons designed primarily to shoot down enemy planes, and the Russians have been notably unhurried in supplying either country with the weapons of modern offense. Western intelligence reports indicate that Russia has replaced only a third of Egypt's 700 lost tanks, only half of its 50 bombed-out bombers and almost none of its heavy guns. Russia, moreover, has long since stopped...