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...Opera (Sun. 7 p.m., Mutual). Metropolitan Opera Basso Norman Cordon and Soprano Barbara Troxell in arias from Lohengrin, Faust and Otello...
More than 20,000 British troops in maroon berets clamped a cordon around Tel-Aviv, flower of Zionism, while patrol boats sealed the harbor. The all-Jewish population of 200,000 was put tinder a 22-hour curfew. Then the troops moved in with tanks and armored cars, and searched every house, every person for evidence of terrorist activity. In Tel-Aviv hospitals, army doctors X-rayed plaster casts to make sure their wearers were not faking...
...square-mile area - kudu, wildebeests, wart hogs, hyenas, zebras, duikers, baboons, storks, vultures, rats - into a small game reserve deep in the forest. They will not be slaughtered, though many surely will be killed before the drive ends. Ultimately the reserve will be ringed by a cordon sanitaire of cleared ground, two miles wide, which the tsetse presumably will not cross...
Haganah men say that in the last four months they brought 7,000 out of 10,000 "illegals" safely through the British cordon. Once ashore, the travelers find the channels of absorption into the Jewish community efficient and heartwarming. One Polish girl's account...
...placed the responsibility for this distrust "squarely on both Russia and us. Russia's fear of the 'cordon sanitaire' after the last war, and our own fear of communist propaganda" are to blame, he continued...