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Thirty years ago, October 6, 1973, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, the Arab world launched a bold and ingeniously conceived surprise attack against Israel. After three days of intense, bloody combat, an unprepared Israel was fighting for survival, while the Arabs, with massive forces closing in on the Jewish heartland, were poised to redeem the honor lost in three previous wars. Based on declassified Israeli government documents...
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Retired from his day job, Lubetkin is a board member of the Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association, though he lives in Virginia. He can explain. The story he tells about the surveying and building of the railway combines the American frontier and American business. Cooke, head of the country's most prestigious private banking house, put lots of money into a scheme that not only violated the common sense rule that a railway had to go from...
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