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...Last week, at the Summer Gift Show in Chicago's Merchandise Mart, prices were up as much as 100% over five years ago, but the show had the most successful run in its history, with sales 50% ahead of last year. One puzzled firm reported selling 200 Egyptian camel saddles at $100 apiece last year, could not figure out what for. Said Ted Russell of the gift firm of N. S. Gustin: "I'm flabbergasted. The whole trend is amazing...
Last week, after the French formally transferred police powers to Moroccan authority, vengeance began. As the former Caid Omar Sektani and his secretary drove past a dusty camel market in Marrakech, their car was stopped by a mob, who shot both men, dragged their bodies to a nearby garbage heap and set them afire. Another mob burst into the home of Bel Mekki, shot him, cut up his body and tossed the pieces into a fire. Glaoui's old guards were caught, put into carts, tortured publicly, burned alive. Throughout the day and night mobs rampaged through the native...
There is a proverb that "one who eats the flesh of camel inherits its basic temper." I have spent many years in Spanish Morocco, only to learn to respect the Arab temper. The wounds of the Balfour Declaration cannot be forgotten, and the Arabs would attempt to throw the Jews of Israel into the sea. And if Lieut. General Glubb was surprised at King Hussein's orders, I think he is a very small...
Desert Welcome. Britain created Jordan in the '20s to provide a throne for its World War I ally the Hashemite Emir Abdullah. Glubb arrived from Iraq to work for Abdullah's dusty, black-tent Bedouin kingdom. How, asked Abdullah's father, had Glubb traveled? "Riding a camel," said the newcomer, in fluent Arabic. "By Allah!" exclaimed the old warrior. "This one is a Bedouin...
...burial place of the great Jewish philosopher Maimonides (1135-1205) was determined, so legend has it, when the camel that bore his bones from Cairo to Palestine refused to budge from a spot near the Sea of Galilee. In time, the modern city of Tiberias grew up around the old square stone that marked his grave. The burial ground became a grubby lot littered with shacks and privies...