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Returning Russians. Meanwhile, Middle East peace will depend on restraint by both sides. Even if there is no resumption of major fighting, Israel seems in for more violence. Last Tuesday a terrorist's grenade exploded in the Old City section of Jerusalem, injuring 20; the following day a bomb exploded in an Israeli bus wounding 14 and killing one. Both incidents indicate the growing restlessness of the Palestinians living within the Israeli-occupied Arab territories. In the past month at least 60 suspected terrorists have been arrested in Israel for a series of attacks...
...realized that the proclamation he had read was their call to war. Ben-Gurion acted as Defense Minister as well as Prime Minister and shrewdly defended his fledgling country on four fronts. At the same time, he prevented civil war by ordering Israeli soldiers to fire if the Jewish terrorist organization Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization) attempted to land weapons for itself from the freighter Altalena in defiance of a Ben-Gurion order that "there shall be one army, one nation, one people." The Urgun, headed by present Knesset Opposition Leader Menahem Begin, backed down and obeyed Ben-Gurion...
Swint, his chauffeur and one bodyguard were killed and the other bodyguard was critically wounded before any of them could use their guns. A blond youth was seen administering a coup de grâce with a machine gun to Swint as he lay dying. The terrorist commandos then broke up and fled before police arrived...
...former Strongman Syngman Rhee in 1960. What galvanized the students this time was the diplomatic furor created by the kidnaping, purportedly by CIA agents, of exiled former Opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung from a hotel in Tokyo. At a rally last month, 400 students demanded an end to the terrorist rule of the CIA, the "whole truth" about the Kim abduction and restoration of press freedom...
Such a situation would be quite unusual in Israel's parliamentary democracy. The leader of Likud is Menahem Begin, who served as commander of the anti-British terrorist organization, the Irgun, during the British Mandate over Palestine. Begin is an advocate of annexation of every inch of occupied Arab territory, and it would be interesting to see his response to any American-Soviet peace initiative calling for Israeli withdrawal...