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...TIME'S cheerful acceptance of the Israeli conquest of Arab Jerusalem and other Arab areas [Aug. 4 and 11] acquires considerable irony in view of recent developments, which inevitably attend extended military occupation. Your assertion that "emotional and fiscal" motives sway the Arabs as much as religion in their concern for the holy places would seem even truer of the predominantly secularist Israelis now vigorously exploiting the commercial advantages of the sacred sites. May I point out that in Arab eyes, those hordes of "festive" Israeli tourists visiting the occupied areas are analogous to the Germans who flocked eagerly...
Schramme quickly cashed in on his conquest. After establishing his headquarters in Bukavu's Royal Residence Hotel, he set up a "government of public safety" headed by a Katangese captain, and made sure that 300 white civilian refugees from the fighting were escorted safely across the border into Rwanda. Then he issued an ultimatum giving Mobutu ten days in which to negotiate for peace. Among Schramme's terms: that Mobutu return democratic government to the Congo, annul the treason conviction of ex-President Tshombe (who is now in an Algerian jail awaiting extradition) and make Tshombe a member...
Another (Gastone Moschin) walks out on his nattering wife to find comfort as generously dispensed by a cafe hostess (Virna Lisi). His friends envy his conquest and join forces with the wife to hound him back to domesticity. Yet, an intruding enemy can unite all men in common cause. When a teen age peasant girl (Patrizia Valturri) is entertained by the husbands in an afternoon of collective amiability, and later hauls them before a judge, they take up a collection to buy her off and rescue the community's honor...
Wistful Pride. France had founded Canada, said De Gaulle, and "alone for 21 centuries had administered, populated and developed" the country. After the English conquest came "a century of oppression." Now, in the second century of British rule, the French Canadian minority "still has not been assured in their own country of liberty, equality and fraternity...
Home for the Ark. Jerusalem's religious importance actually begins with David. When the twelve tribes of Israel sought to consolidate their conquest of the Promised Land around 1000 B.C., David decided to capture the citadel from the Jebusites, a tribal ally of the Philistines. He did so after a prolonged siege, and made it his capital. There he brought the ark of the covenant, a gold-lined chest that Moses had built to contain the tablets of the law. David's son Solomon, who reigned from circa 970 to 930 B.C., built a magnificent Temple to contain...