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...younger brother Zarin, an accountant who had immigrated to Montreal via England, to look in occasionally on Carmen and the children (a daughter Zarina, now 9, and a son Merwan, 7). Zarin looked in occasionally, then more often. In 1966 Zubin, who was rehearsing the Israel Philharmonic in Haifa, suddenly announced that he wanted to dedicate the concert to his brother, who was "getting married to a very nice girl." To whom? "To my former wife," Mehta replied. Nowadays, whenever he is in Montreal, he stays with Zarin, Carmen and the children-including now Zarin's daughter, four-month...
Israelis, with their own concentration camp experience still vividly in mind, have been extremely careful victors. As prisoners still qoured in from three different fronts, the Israelis allowed reporters to talk with whomever they wished in a detention camp south of Haifa...
...Haifa, Israel...
...Israelis had surrounded Gaza so quickly that few soldiers or civilians had a chance to escape. General Moshe Goren and his military-government staff first had to disband all enemy units and ferret out potential terrorists, sending the most dangerous ones to the Athlit P.O.W. camp south of Haifa. Then he turned to the task of supplying food and water to the abysmally poor people-mostly jobless Palestinian refugees who had been living on the U.N. food dole of 1,500 calories a day. Last week the U.N. resumed feeding them, and Goren made Gaza's Egyptian pound exchangeable...
...counseled the Israelis not to test the blockade, and Israel decided for the time being to keep its ships out of the Gulf of Aqaba. It could still import oil from Western Europe and the U.S. through its major Mediterranean port of Haifa, which also happens to be the center of its oil refining industry. Israel thus can live for a while with the blockade-but only for a while. Some ships bearing goods to Israel have already sailed for Elath. If Nasser is adamant about turning back Israeli ships, the U.S. and Britain (both of which had naval task...