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...about what the boundaries of that homeland ought to be. One of the earliest references is Genesis 15: 18: "In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt [probably not the Nile, but the Wadi el Arish in the Sinai] unto the great river, the great river Euphrates." If modern Israel claimed this vast expanse, it would include not only Damascus and much of modern Syria but parts of Turkey...
...have previously been found. Though wind, sand and irrigation works have wiped out much of the canal's course, Geologists Amihai Sneh, Tuvia Weissbrod and Itamar Perath hint at an intriguing possibility: the waterway may have split in two, one branch following a great east-west depression called Wadi Tumilat to link with the Nile, the other continuing south into the Red Sea along a route that became part of a canal system later built by the Persian conqueror Darius...
...students' first day was routine. The only hint of danger came when a side trip into a wadi, or dry river bed, had to be canceled after an army patrol told the teachers that Palestinian guerrillas might be hiding there. At dusk, the school caravan reached Ma'alot, and the travelers bedded down in sleeping bags in the town's three-story concrete school building. Students and teachers took turn staying awake along with the guards. But the weapons that the adults had brought along?an Uzi submachine gun and some bolt-action rifles?were left in a truck outside...
Planning on last week's operation started in late July, with Habash and lis top lieutenant, Dr. Wadi Haddad, is the principal architects. They picked New York-bound flights and a weekend target date to ensure that many of their hostages would be vacationing American civilians. Fewer than half a dozen of the Popular Front's ranking leaders knew all the details, and individual skyjacking teams, who had been instructed in the rudiments of navigation and flight procedures, were not aware of one another's existence...
After taking a dirt road across the desert toward Qumran, where the first Dead Sea Scrolls were found, the Pikes missed a turn and wound up instead driving down a gray sandstone wadi (dry creek bed). When large rocks kept them from going farther, they tried in vain to turn the car around. Then, ignoring an old desert rule, they abandoned their vehicle to search for help. Two hours later, James Pike could walk no farther. "If we are going to die in the desert," Diane recalled telling him, "I will stay by you." The two napped; then Mrs. Pike...