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...crisis in Jordan was misleadingly billed by Arabs and Israelis alike as strictly an "internal" Jordanian affair. It was anything but that. Jordan is an artificial country carved out of the desert, and cannot live without support from somebody. Ever since the British abdicated, King Hussein's chaotic and impoverished kingdom has been open to every neighbor's intervention. During last fall's Sinai war, neighboring Arab states sent in forces to "protect" Jordan against possible Israeli attacks. At Mafrak, 3.000 Syrians are encamped, dedicated to the proposition that Jordan is rightly part of Greater Syria. Farther...
...million Palestine refugees driven from their own country who now form a restless and disaffected overload on Jordan's desert economy. Another who bears responsibility is Egypt's Nasser, whose hate-filled Radio Cairo outpourings and political intrigue have inflamed the refugee-camp centers. In this chaotic situation, two Arab leaderships that mistrust each other -Iraq and Saudi Arabia-found common cause in trying to save the artificial kingdom of Jordan from falling to one of two enemies: either the Israelis outside or the Communists within...
...third largest city in the U.S., it had slipped down to eighth. The city was one-quarter slum, another quarter near-slum, and no new office building had been put up in 25 years. The municipal budget was deep ($4,200,000) in the red. Downtown traffic was chaotic, industry was pulling out, property values and business activity were dropping; e.g., city retail sales, up almost everywhere else, were down 10% from 1948. Said a St. Louis cabbie of that dismal time, 1953: "This city was dying...
...Essenes. But when did they go into the desert and why? The answer must lie in the history of Israel from 200 B.C. to A.D. 68, the period indicated by paleography and archaeology for the existence of the Qumran community. It was a stretch of history so bloody and chaotic that it is easy to understand how people could believe that the End of Days was near. The tiny Jewish nation was torn and chivvied by powerful neighbors-first Egypt and Syria, later Rome. In the wake of Alexander the Great, the world outside Israel was dominated by Greek ways...
...said that "If the citizen can see with his own eyes what 20th century living could be like, if he can talk to the inhabitants of such a proposed experimental development and watch the improvements made, he will become fed up with his own chaotic environment and will begin to press for the rehabilitation of his own community...