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...reserve now contains about 100 species of biblical animals, many of them on the verge of extinction. To collect them, Yoffe undergoes almost biblical trials. Arab governments routinely refuse, for political reasons, to sanction the shipment of animals to Israel. Yoffe once got round this problem by paying Bedouin hunters in the Judean hills to catch him 15 Nubian ibexes, one by one. But he still yearns for a pair of wild Arabian oryxes (a kind of antelope), which can now be found mainly on the Arabian peninsula. His chief recourse is to turn to zoos that have the species...
Until recently, little of Libya's vast wealth trickled down to the nation's 1.8 million people, 35% of whom are illiterate Bedouins. Gaddafi, a Bedouin who grew up in a desert tent, has now decided to help them by turning Libya into an instant industrial state. So far, he has decreed that 40 new industries must be launched, ranging from clothing and pharmaceuticals to steel tubing and petrochemicals. To the delight of European suppliers, Libya has ordered $180 million worth of cement, shoe and glass factories from West Germany, a $50 million power plant from France...
...Israeli I.D. cards, vote in municipal but not in national elections, and have little effective voice in city operations, partly because many refuse to cooperate with Kollek. They live in wary coexistence not only with Israel but also with Hussein, who alienated them last year by turning his Bedouin army against the Palestinian guerrillas operating in Jordan...
Died. Roland de Vaux, 67, the French Dominican priest and biblical scholar who was one of those who penetrated the mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls; of a heart attack; in Jerusalem. Two years after a Bedouin shepherd stumbled onto a cave near the Dead Sea in 1947, De Vaux was among a party of archaeologists who journeyed to the spot. There they uncovered more than 40 previously unknown caves, many containing ancient Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic manuscripts. The 2,000-year-old documents, pieced together and edited by an international team of scholars headed by De Vaux, turned...
...Israeli patrols. Blindfolded and carted off in buses, one of which had a VISIT ISRAEL poster on its side, the fedayeen were confined in Nablus. Their status was uncertain, since they had committed no hostile acts in Israel. Still, they were the fortunate few. Back in Jordan, tough Bedouin legionnaires were killing or capturing nearly 2,500 of their comrades as King Hussein sought to end, once and for all, the fedayeen threat to his throne. One guerrilla who made it to the Israeli side said angrily: "Better to die by Israeli hands than to be killed by an Arab...