Word: yom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hopeful sign last week in the Middle East was the return to Cairo of the wives and children of Soviet personnel stationed in Egypt. It was their evacuation in early October that presaged the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War. Now, at least, it seems that the Russians have enough faith in the ceasefire to plan the reopening of the Soviet school in Cairo at the start of next year...
Israelis are confused by the setbacks that their armed forces suffered in the early days of the war, and depressed by the loss of at least 1,854 lives on the battlefield. Premier Golda Meir admitted last week that in the first days of the Yom Kippur War, even she feared that Israel would be defeated and annihilated. Attempting to still the cries of critics who charge that her government was unprepared for the war, she appointed a nonpartisan five-man commission, headed by Supreme Court President Shimon Agranat, to investigate the army's errors...
...true that Washington had been annoyed by the refusal of the Papadopoulos government to allow U.S. planes bound for Israel to fly over Greece during the Yom Kippur War. Yet on balance it seemed that the U.S. would have had more to gain-in the short term, at least-by opposing the coup. The Administration had been pleased by Papadopoulos' recent promises of free elections, and by his acceptance in principle of the next phase of the U.S. Navy's plans to use Greece as a "home port" for the Sixth Fleet. Whether the new junta will...
...Kissinger plan and withdraw to the positions they held on Oct. 22-before they surrounded the city of Suez and trapped the Egyptian Third Army. The Israelis maintained that the Oct. 22 lines were uncharted and suggested instead that both sides withdraw to the positions they held before the Yom Kippur War began Oct. 6. To the Egyptians, this would mean the loss of their newly restored position on the east bank of the canal and an admission that they had gained nothing in the October...
...seats in the Knesset (parliament), is the most formidable opposition that the 56-seat Labor bloc has ever had. (Among other matters, Likud is opposed to Israel's giving up any of the territory it now occupies on the West Bank of the Jordan River.) Even before the Yom Kippur War, Sharon seemed sure to win a seat in the Knesset election that is now scheduled for Dec. 31. Because he has become the leading military hero of the war, he could emerge as one of the Knesset's most powerful figures...