Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nasser's ambitions are becoming clearer. Surrounding Israel on two sides, he would like to close the circle by creating a sort of provisional Palestine regime in the area now part of Jordan. The Palestine refugee movement, if noisy, has been ineffectual since the Arabs were beaten by Israel in 1949. Nasser wants to purge it of discredited oldtimers and replace them with a group of young militants who would stir up trouble as the rebel F.L.N. leaders do for Algeria. They would be backed by Cairo and run from Cairo. King Hussein was thus in for another showdown...
...days earlier the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold had abruptly issued a warning that the Middle East situation was again "deteriorating." The origins of the flare-up date from Israel's claustrophobic feeling of isolation in the Arab Middle East, and its conviction that the indifferent rest of the world has reneged on its promise to keep the Suez Canal open to Israeli shipping. Seizing upon a small incident on the Syrian border last month, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion launched Israel's first reprisal raid since the 1956 Sinai invasion, blasting and leveling a Syrian village...
...announced that he would shortly leave for a trip to the U.S., as if to show there was no reason for war scares. In the U.S., BenGurion will also seek assurance of American sympathy prior to the summit meeting, when he fears that the U.S. and Russia might compromise Israel in an effort to arrange a Middle East settlement...
...Aharoni's assault on the caves started a month ago with a reconnaissance in force. Trigger was a report that Bedouins were getting scraps of parchment out of caves in the Wadi Saiyal, a five-mile-long canyon in Israel near the Jordanian border. In a light airplane Dr. Aharoni flew close to the wadi's cliffs, taking photographs and spotting the mouths of many caves. Then he recruited 28 amateur archaeologists from tough Israeli border settlements. His expedition moved into the wilderness with a military escort to discourage Arab guerrillas...
Born. To Ogden Rogers Reid, 34, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, onetime (1955-58) publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, and Mary Louise Stewart Reid, 34; their fourth child, first daughter; in Tel Aviv, Israel. Name: Elizabeth. Weight...