When Carter first arrived in Egypt in , most of the ancient Egyptian tombs had been discovered, though the Student followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini send shock waves across America when they storm the U.
The radical Islamic fundamentalists took 90 hostages. The students were enraged that the deposed Shah had been allowed to enter the United States for medical A spontaneous national uprising that began 12 days before in Hungary is viciously crushed by Soviet tanks and troops on November 4, Thousands were killed and wounded and nearly a quarter-million Hungarians fled the country.
The problems in Hungary began in October , Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. Mary Todd, whose nickname was Molly, was the child of wealthy parents and received her education in prestigious all-girls schools where On November 4, , T. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in Literature, for his profound effect on the direction of modern poetry.
Eliot was born in St. But he knew ruling over another people was no longer viable. And he was already thinking about Iran as the primary strategic threat to the country.
He used deportation and border closures as he thought necessary. In other words, he did not hesitate to use force and coercion. But he was, at the same time, willing to innovate for the sake of Israeli security, and to adopt nonmilitary means as well. As a military man, he saw issues as having best solutions, which might still fail. But it was important to try.
Unlike Rabin, they have been unwilling to confront public opinion on the matter. In addition to directing more resources to the community, he responded to their concerns by dropping the traditional paternalistic attitude the Zionist parties had long held regarding the Arab minority.
Perhaps more importantly, for the first and only time, Arab political parties played an indirect role in policymaking. In , as a result of the Oslo accords, Rabin lost his majority in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. In , Rabin was chosen as leader of the Labor party, replacing Shimon Peres.
He led his party to victory over the opposition Likud for the first time since , and became Prime Minister in June of , assuming the post of Defense Minister as well, and giving Peres the post of Foreign Minister. His unequaled credentials as a war hero and elder statesman made it possible for him to overcome the divisive internal politics of the Labor party, and subsequently lead Israel to the Oslo peace agreement with the Palestinians and peace with Jordan.
Rabin was known for his bluntness, analytic mind, and colorful colloquial Sabra idioms, delivered in his slow deep bass voice that became a hallmark of reassurance to two generations of Israelis, and a source of annoyance to political enemies. Israel GPO. Violent demonstrations caricatured Rabin as an SS officer, and at one point demonstrators began vandalizing his official car.
A group of right-wing demonstrators gathered outside his Ramat Aviv apartment each day to chant insults and threats. The security apparatus did very little to stop this activity. The rally was held in the main square of Tel Aviv on the evening of November 4, and was well attended. Rabin shared the podium with his ex-rival Shimon Peres, singing songs of peace and declaring his determination to carry through the peace agreements, and then left to go to his car.
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