Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wailing Wall. Given the vitriolic state of Arab-Israeli relations, it was, in a way, remarkable that these secret meetings took place at all-and perhaps not surprising that they produced no results. The Israeli sessions with Hussein at first seemed promising. Hussein agreed to Israeli construction of defense settlements overlooking the West Bank of the Jordan River, as well as to a demilitarization of the West Bank area, but he rejected the idea of an Israeli cordon sanitaire along the West Bank. In turn, Israel accepted Hussein's demand that Palestinian refugees who fled the West Bank...
...talks broke down, however, over Jerusalem. Hussein offered Israel some rights in the Jordanian part of the city-including access to the Wailing Wall-and talked of internationalization of the city as a possible alternative. Israel, of course, has formally annexed Arab Jerusalem and does not want to relinquish its hold. In any further Arab-Israeli negotiations, it seemed increasingly obvious that Jerusalem may prove the major sticking point...
Quartered at the State House in Lagos, where British governors once resided and where Admiral Horatio Nelson still looks down from the wall, Wilson nevertheless proceeded to do some blunt overseer's talking. He brought up a topic that embarrasses Britain and shocks nations who would otherwise be more sympathetic to Nigeria: the indiscriminate Nigerian bombing of Biafran hospitals, schools, markets and missions. Gowon insisted that this is not his policy but that he cannot always control his pilots. Neutral observers in Biafra have tallied 677 civilian dead and 1,313 wounded in 30 civilian strikes this year alone...
While his Biafra series finally established Churchill as a respected professional, his words have seen print ever since he graduated from Eton in 1959 and took a summer job in New York writing headlines for the Wall Street Journal. He earned a modern-history degree from Oxford, then joined an expedition through the Sahara. That trip led to his first bylined story, which appeared in the London Sunday Express...
Some of the marvels fashioned by the craftsmen of those eras could be seen last week at Sotheby's in London, where 142 objects from the collection of the late Melvin Gutman went on view (see color). Gutman was a strange man. Son of a Wall Street stockbroker, he made a fortune in the stock market, and at the age of 29 conceived a passion for antique jewelry. He never married, and for the last 34 years of his life he never strayed far from his Manhattan apartment. When he died last year...