Word: yom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WEST GERMANY has long feared the predominant market power of the multinationals. Even before the Yom Kippur War, the Bonn government planned to create a state-owned oil company to compete with the majors. After fighting began in the Middle East, gasoline prices in West Germany zoomed. But Willy Brandt's administration did not take countervailing action for fear that the big oil firms would sell their products elsewhere. The Economics Ministry did, however, investigate the way that the multinationals were doing business...
...Yom Kippur War changed that plan. When the Arabs ordered production cutbacks, Chairman Jungers quickly complied. Similarly, Aramco followed orders to stop exports to "hostile" nations, including the U.S., and went along with a tripling of prices decreed by the Middle Eastern oil-producing countries...
...hurried had Mrs. Meir's last-minute deliberations been that she was not able to say, even at that eleventh hour, who would be in or out of her new Cabinet. Angry at criticism within the Labor Party of his handling of the Yom Kippur War, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan had pulled an Achilles-like withdrawal and announced that he would not serve in the next Cabinet "under existing conditions" - meaning, presumably, that he would pout on the sidelines until the critics said that they were sorry. "I have asked him, I am asking him, and I will...
...blame. The Prime Minister herself has suffered a Nixonesque drop in the public opinion polls - from 65% support before the war to 21% today. Dayan, the hero of the 1967 war, is now constantly derided for the disastrous early setbacks of 1973. Indeed, one popular hero of the Yom Kippur War, Reserve Captain Motti Ashkenazi, 33, who commanded the only fortification on the Bar-Lev Line that did not fall to the Egyptians, last week led 4,000 anti-Dayan pickets in front of Mrs. Meir's Jerusalem office. GO DOWN MOSES (DAYAN)! read some of the placards...
Jerry Lewis has taken to its pulpit to deliver a sermon on what it means to him to be a Jew. Walter Matthau has charmed his fellow congregants with a rendition of Sholom Aleichem stories. Love Story Author Erich Segal read a poem on forgiveness for Yom Kippur. The site of all this star-powered piety? One of Hollywood's newest in-spots, the Synagogue for the Performing Arts...