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Curious Footnote. One by one, other Biblical towns fell to the advancing Israelis?Jericho, Hebron, Bethlehem?until they had seized all of Hussein's kingdom west of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea. Unlike their Egyptian brethren in Sinai, King Hussein's legionnaires fought stubbornly and with discipline. But as in Sinai, the Israelis' absolute mastery of the air meant ultimate Arab defeat. All day the jets wheeled into steep dives to drop bombs and napalm canisters on stubborn pockets of Jordanian resistance. Unaware of the extent of Egypt's air losses, Hussein could not believe that the Israeli...
...evangelical fervor that Richards can bring to even a bowl of cereal comes naturally enough, since he is an ordained Church of the Brethren minister. He neither smokes nor drinks, and his favorite expletive is "Smoly Hoke!" Their emphasis being on clean living, the TV commercials he makes for Wheaties are in perfect character. So are the 80-odd speeches that Richards delivers on the banquet circuit each year, appearances liberally laced with a can-do gospel that is equal parts Norman Vincent Peale and Knute Rockne...
...Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol. "Hopeful ever of redemption, we labored to return to the land of our fathers and to set foundations for the resurgence of an exiled folk. We made our arduous way to the shores of that land. We fought to open its gates to our brethren. We acted from an instinct to save the soul of a people...
...Nations peace-keeping force-which he had often in the past used as an excuse for not acting. With Israel threatening to invade Syria, he could hardly use that excuse again, so he made what could have been a good double play. To display his courage to his Arab brethren, he went through the motion of requesting the U.N. force to withdraw, expecting to meet considerable opposition...
Both actions took place at the annual synods of the two churches, which met under difficult conditions. In the past, the two branches of Protestantism have gathered in different sectors of divided Berlin, and some West Germans have been allowed to visit their brethren in the east. This time, Communist officials forced the East German synod to meet at Fiirstenwalde, 20 miles from Berlin-and made it clear ahead of time that they expected the meeting to end in a formal schism (TIME, April...