Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hold quite different views to reflect on the contrast, as they saw it, between the dream of Israel and the reality. Novelist Amos Oz, 39 (My Michael, The Hill of Evil Counsel), is a dove; a member of a kibbutz in the Jerusalem corridor, he served in a tank unit during Israel's last two wars. Shmuel Katz, 63, was a comrade of Menachem Begin in the underground Irgun movement; a Herut Party member of the Knesset and an Israeli superhawk, he resigned as the Premier's foreign information adviser to protest Begin's moves toward peace...
...Think-tank analysts" setting levels of acceptable loss in terms of lives were "inhuman" and the destruction of just one city would be unthinkably horrifying as evidenced by Hiroshima, Bundy said...
...citrus , I see Israeli warplanes flying overhead inpairs--probably Phantom jets or F-15s. The beauty of the Galilee Mountains contrasts sharply with the noises and reality of war. Later in the day, I hear several helicoptors landing near Hanita. The kibbutz's dirt road is freshly marked with tank tracks...
...used carriage bolts, foam pontoons, a rudder and rocket engine, a tank of carbon dioxide and two bicycles for wheel power, Alan Stern '79, one of the builders said yesterday...
...facts FBI investigators have garnered. Moffitt is a soft-spoken 26-year-old. He is friendly, yet constrained; he seems to be goaded on by the urgency of his duties. The pain is there, but it is forceably overcome. Moffitt, who joined the IPS, a Washington-based think tank, five year ago and worked under Richard Barnett before joining Letelier, says he always worried about an attempted assasination of Letelier--who was also a former Chilean foreign minister and defense minister--when they traveled but never entertained the possibility of anything happening in the U.S. In retrospect, however, Moffitt believes...