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Kalkilya is a Moslem community of 10,000 on the West Bank of the Jordan River, 13 miles northeast of Tel Aviv. During the Six-Day War, Israeli soldiers overran Kalkilya, destroying half the town and uprooting many of its lush, productive citrus groves. With help from Israel's government, the town has since been largely rebuilt, but it remains under what its inhabitants regard as enemy rule. TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief William Marmon recently visited Kalkilya and sent this report...
Contrary to popular belief, money does grow on trees. At least it does in Hidalgo County in the southern tip of Texas. It takes the form of oranges, all ripe and now starting to rot. The reason, according to Mike Wallace, a regional manager of Texas Citrus Mutual, is that the pickers "are lined up over at the post office waiting for Uncle Sam to feed them." Since December, the area's post offices have been issuing food stamps. The growers claim that the program has undermined the desire to work. The food-stamp officials deny this, explaining that...
Prosperity is depopulating the countryside. For the first time, more than half the population lives in towns and cities of at least 20,000. Everywhere, olives and citrus fruits hang rotting from branches, waiting for pickers who have left for the cities...
...lack of vitamin A, contained in green, leafy vegetables and whole milk, can cause night blindness. Shortages of the various B vitamins, contained in milk, meat and some grains, produce such deficiency diseases as pellagra and beriberi. A deficiency of vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, a substance found in citrus fruits and some fresh vegetables, can result in scurvy. Rickets, a disease caused by calcium deficiency that produces bone deformities, can result from a lack of vitamin...
...complaint appears to be that the Israelis are trying to collect taxes. "We never paid the Syrians, and we won't pay the Israelis," a Druze shopkeeper said indignantly. Yet Arabs are quietly making their own accommodations; they have little choice. In the Gaza Strip, where production of citrus fruit has doubled since 1967, Arab growers have begun to take five-year loans from Israeli banks to finance the additional packinghouses they need...