Word: palestinian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arab lands. Any withdrawal terms will have to be part of a package that includes a binding declaration of peace from the Arabs. The Rogers-Gromyko talks also proved that there are wide differences on other items of the package, including final boundaries, the disposition of Jerusalem and the Palestinian refugee question...
...Middle East conflict will figure in scheduled debates on two subjects this fall: the condition of Palestinian refugees, who have been U.N. wards since 1948, and Arab claims of human-rights violations in Israeli-occupied territories. Other debates certain to engage the Assembly's time and temper include the protection of civil rights for Northern Ireland's Catholic minority and restrictions on chemical and germ warfare. There is every prospect that the U.N. will formally decide to enter the pollution-control field by setting up the first worldwide governmental conference on the protection of the environment...
...everyday life, there is hardly a sign of outright Israeli repression. The administrative and military posture of the occupiers is low; West Bank Governor Brigadier General Raphael Vardi, who controls some 600,000 Palestinian Arabs, does his job with a lean staff of no more than 300 Israelis. TIME Correspondent Jim Bell cabled last week after a five-day tour of the West Bank: "The Israelis you saw were in the occasional infantry squad, their combat fatigues wet with sweat, walking along a road or eating rations under a gnarled olive tree. Occasionally others raced by in Jeeps and weapons...
...case, the Israelis suspended their retaliation policy and relied on cool tactics, as they awaited Syria's response to their demand for the release of two Israeli men. The two were aboard TWA's Flight 840 when Palestinian guerrillas forced the jetliner to land at Damascus (see box). Obviously worried by the furious international reaction, the Syrians quickly released 99 of the 101 passengers, among them four Israeli women. To satisfy the guerrillas' sympathizers, however, Syria might hold the Israeli men until the political heat dies down. Whether Israel's patience will last that long...
...Palestinian guerrillas who forced down TWA Flight 840 in Damascus may well have pulled off much more than the 46th reported hijacking of the year. The ease with which they commandeered the plane and the apparent immunity that they enjoyed in Syria suggest that air piracy is becoming a standard and almost absurdly routine tactic. The chilling fact is that no country or airline anywhere can feel safe from a group that wants a dramatic way to publicize its grievances...