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Ever since Boer President "Oom Paul" Kruger first set them up on the slopes of the Wolkberg in 1883, the Mamatola tribesmen of the northeastern Transvaal have cultivated their sunny and windswept land in peace and contentment. Last week a convoy of 23 trucks dispatched by South Africa's Native Affairs Minister Hendrik Verwoerd rumbled up the mountain to carry the 1,200-odd Mamatola off to a new home, Metz, in a dank and inhospitable valley 30 miles to the east. The stated reason: the Mamatola's outmoded farming methods were ruining the land...
...tolls with a polite note indicating that she was obeying U.S. Government instructions to pay under protest. Then, with the U.S. flag flying at the stern and the green Egyptian flag at the foremast truck, President Jackson steamed slowly northward into the canal at the head of a convoy of four ships. Mahmoud Younis, manager of Egypt's Suez Canal administration, wired the twelve passengers a Happy Easter and a pleasant trip. At Ismailia, U.S. Lieut. General Raymond A. Wheeler left his office in the U.N. canal-clearance headquarters, appeared on the canal bank to salute the ship...
...King ordered General Abu Nuwar to come along, jumped into a limousine and raced toward Zerka with an escort of five jeeploads of Bedouin Tommy-gunners. On the road the convoy met the rampaging Bedouins, who went wild with cheers, firing in the air and screaming: "Down with Abu Nuwar! Down with the Communists!" One wild-eyed Bedouin officer charged toward Abu Nuwar with rifle ready. Hussein ordered him to halt, thus saved the cowering Abu Nuwar's life...
...nine small ships nosed slowly past the sun-baked jetties at the entrance to Port Said harbor and into the open Mediterranean-the first convoy to pass through the Suez Canal in five months. Harbor vessels tooted joyously, and on the quays crowds broke into cheers...
...lever on Western nations, he had converted its opening into a kind of reverse lever. For shippers were so eager to resume transit that they rushed through without a quibble at his terms. Italian, Greek and West German (as well as Communist) vessels were in the first convoy. The U.S., Britain and France were still "advising" their ships to avoid the canal for the moment while they dickered for better terms...