Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...workers and their sympathizers march, supermarket chains, middle-class consumers, and even the grape growers are choosing sides. Some supermarkets are leaving the choice to the shopper. Others sell only grapes imported from Africa or Israel, and make a point of advertising that they do not carry the California product. On Capitol Hill, diners in the House restaurants have not seen a grape for months, while the Senate refectory has been using 15 lbs. to 20 lbs. a week. When one California Congressman sent large bags of grapes to each of his colleagues, many of the recipients returned them. Within...
...Israel was the victim of the week's most spectacular raid, a strike at its oil installations at Haifa, the country's chief seaport. In the early morning, a lone Palestinian fedayeen crept up to a complex of eight pipelines carrying oil from the Haifa refinery to dockside and placed three pounds of explosives under a manifold. The resulting blast knocked three of the pipelines temporarily out of commission and started a fire that destroyed 1,500 tons of refined oil. It was the most spectacular act of Arab sabotage since the June...
...turned out to be more difficult to achieve than he thought. Nixon hoped to calm the Middle East by working with the Soviets, but last week he admitted: "I see very little defusing." The Russians are evidently content not to have genuine peace between the Arab nations and Israel, but a state of controlled tension. Nixon wanted Moscow to help him get a settlement in Viet Nam by applying pressure on the North Vietnamese. Although the Russians reportedly have tried, Hanoi remains intransigent at the Paris peace talks. He also sought to reopen conversations on the status of Berlin...
...Clarence Brandenburg was shown on television in Ku Klux Klan regalia, haranguing his cronies. "The nigger should be returned to Africa, the Jew returned to Israel," said Brandenburg. "If our President, our Congress, our Supreme Court continues to suppress the white, Caucasian race, it's possible that there might have to be some revengence [sic] taken." Convicted of violating Ohio's criminal-syndicalism law by "advocating violence as a means to accomplish social reform," Brandenburg appealed to the state's highest court, but his plea was rejected on the grounds that "no substantial constitutional question exists...
There may have been a few lady generals, messiahs or tribal chieftains, but history neglects their exploits. Israel's Golda Meir and India's Indira Gandhi are rare exceptions to masculine domination in politics. The human species itself is called...