Word: syrian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Back in 1954 in a little Syrian town called Kessab, another youth and I set the world record of games played for one set (normally a set is three to five games). We played a 1,000-game set, which lasted 15 days with six to eight hours off a day for eating and sleeping...
...miles apart. On Cyprus, an Arab businessman named Hussein Bashir, 33, flipped off the light in his second-floor room in Nicosia's Olympic Hotel and climbed into bed. An explosion suddenly wrecked the room and killed Bashir. Although he traveled on a Syrian passport and headed a company called Palmyra Enterprises, Bashir is believed to have been the representative to Cyprus of Al Fatah, the principal Palestinian guerrilla organization. A bomb, apparently one that could be detonated electronically from a distance, had been concealed under Bashir's bed. An unidentified assassin had watched for the light...
...Shachori, 44, agricultural counselor in the Israeli embassy in Britain, was killed in his London office in September when he unknowingly opened a letter-bomb-one of many sent to Israeli officials round the world. Somewhat more ambiguous is the case of Khodr Kanou, 36, a Syrian journalist in Paris, who was shot to death in his apartment doorway three months ago. Kanou, it turned out, was a double agent; French police suspect that Palestinians killed him for exposing Black September operations...
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan's solution for this is new settlements on occupied land. In order to secure its borders, Israel, since the Six-Day War, has been building permanent settlements in territories captured from neighboring Arab states. On the Syrian Golan Heights, for instance, there is a new Israeli settlement called Benei Yehuda. Sharm el Sheikh, overlooking the Straits of Tiran in southern Sinai, has been renamed Ophir and is being developed as an Israeli town, along with the communities of Di-Zahav and Neviot farther up the coast. The Gaza Strip, although it will continue to have...
...actions of Syria, Sadat's other partner in the embryonic three-nation Federation of Arab Republics. Damascus and Jerusalem continue a running border war against each other, which on Syria's part, at least, is an attempt to draw Egypt back into the battle. Last week Syrian artillery once again pounded Israeli positions on the occupied Golan Heights, including the new settlement of Benei Yehuda. Israeli Phantoms scrambled to hit back at the Syrian guns and to tangle with the MIG-21s that climbed to meet them...