Word: underlying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Initially, the Arabs were treated as conquered people. Israel's suspicious government put them under military rule, confiscated half their lands and forced them to obtain special travel permits. The government established an Arab Affairs department, but it included no Arabs and few Arabic-speaking advisers. One high official...
Airliners are particularly vulnerable. The P.F.L.P. promised a follow-up to the Athens attempt and issued a "final warning to tourists." It said: "Do not travel to Israel. Israel is under fire. Do not visit or come near Israeli embassies or offices of El Al Airlines anywhere in the world...
Police said the group, led by a stunning 22-year-old girl who used to teach school in Lebanon, had apparently intended to divert the Tel Aviv-to-New York flight to Tunisia. There the Boeing 707 was to have been evacuated and blown up in an attempt to persuade...
Four years later Stalin died, and in 1956 Nikita Khrushchev accused him of "intolerance, brutality and abuse of power." In 1962, Khrushchev ordered the publication of a novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn that described the Soviet Union under Stalin's rule as one vast slave-labor camp. Stalin's...
Still, the question remains whether ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) will be able to hold its own against the battle-seasoned North Vietnamese. Because of the reduced level of enemy activity, ARVN has not yet faced a major test. Yet in the one sustained battle that it...