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...MERCY OF GOD (310 pp.)-Jean Cau-Atheneum...
...arms to "avenge ourselves." Jordan begged her fellow Arab League states for troops, planes and tanks. John Bagot Glubb, British commander of Jordan's crack 15,000-man Arab Legion, the strongest force in the Arab world, announced a shoot-on-sight order directed at any Israeli cau^it in Jordan. But further he would not go, though Jordanian Deputies demanded retaliation. Said Glubb: "The Jews of Israel must be as well aware as anyone else who knows the Arab world that every one of the survivors of such an attack now considers himself in on the blood-feud...
...cinnamon-red height of Caué rises 4,000 feet sheer from the lush green hills of Minas Geraes. It is a landmark that on a clear day can be seen by an airplane pilot 50 miles away. It is also one of the world's most precious topographical oddities. Caué is Brazil's Iron Mountain, a fabulous lode of some of the world's best ore, pure enough (up to 68%) to compete with Sweden's finest, vast enough to challenge Minnesota's great Mesabi...
Itabira is the name popularly given to Caué, and for two centuries its wealth has been a legend. Early colonists melted its ore into blunderbusses, horseshoes and crude plowshares. International bankers gambled with the concession during the early 1900s. But it was World War II that set shovels biting into Itabira's crown...
...Light. The State Department cau tiously informed Moscow that the U.S. would join the negotiations - if the Krem lin were agreeable. Official Britain began applauding the moment the Poles pub lished their statement. "It shows," said a Foreign Office mouthpiece in a burst of unaccustomed enthusiasm, "that in the view of the Polish Government, as in that of the Soviet Government, all outstanding questions that divide them are open to negotiation...