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...smuggler-shepherd wandered into a cave, heard the crash of broken pottery, and found at his feet a piece of rotting leather. The discovery soon brought wealth to his people and enlightenment to Biblical scholars...
...after the Israeli seizure of the scroll, the Bedouins -- who received no payment for the Temple scroll -- no longer trust Kondo or the scholars. It is believed they still possess some 20 scrolls from the 1956 Cave 11 excavation, said Cross. These, and any more they find, will probably be sold on the open market, where they may earn 10 times more money than they would have through the old channel system, where the Jordanian government set a reasonable price and imprisoned those caught selling to anyone who would remove the scrolls from the country...
Cross was a member of the international team of Biblical scholars who worked on Cave 4, the most prolific Qumran cave explored so far by professionals...
...remember her telling me about her father, whom she never saw. He was in the Resistance during the German occupation. An informer led the Nazis to the cave where he was contacting the British on the wireless. They executed him on the spot. My friend became a fervent Papandreous supporter in the late fifties, when she learned that the informer had emerged a candidate for Parliament on the Conservative ticket. He had never been brought to trial: in the name of anti-Communism, most Nazi collaborators escaped punishment in post-war Greece. In fact, Kollias, the head of the present...
Thus inspired to imagine guerrillas huddled in a candlelit cave pondering the pages of TIME, we got to reflecting on the effects of stories in the magazine, and decided to pass on a few cases in point. ¶Two months ago, Science reported on findings that a major Brazilian river, the Rio Negro, had all the characteristics of a perfect insecticide because, during flooding, it sapped chemicals from neighboring vegetation. Brazil's Minister of Interior said his office had not known of the phenomenon; he encouraged wide publication of the TIME story in the Brazilian press...