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...suppression and summary expulsion last summer of Palestinian guerrillas who were doing more damage to his kingdom than they were to Israel. Ever since, Jordan has been virtually blockaded by its Arab neighbors. Syria and Iraq barred Jordanian planes from their airspace, and Jordanian farmers have had to dump crops because they were barred from their usual markets in those countries. Shipment of phosphate, Jordan's principal export, was barred by Syria. As a result, Turkey now buys phosphate from Israel. Imported goods are brought in through Jordan's single port of Aqaba. Because the Suez Canal...
This Supplement is the first fruit of an attempt to revive an old form of Crimson journalism: the quirky, eccentric, extended essay. The Dump Trucks of several years past were written in a different environment, and were more confessional, more casual, and more devoted to the sensibilities of the youth culture. They really were "dump trucks" to unload younger writers' heads...
...little. If we wrote the things people wrote several years ago they would seem obvious, even a trifle irresponsible. We have decided, in our first supplement, to return to the avant-garde youth culture that spawned our predecessors, and to talk about it in an historical perspective. The old Dump Trucks tended to have an anti-intellectual bias; we hope that we have not over-compensated for it in the other direction...
...Future Dump Trucks will carry an essay on George Orwell by Garrett Epps; an extract from an oral history of three generations of a Mississippi sharecropper's family, being compiled by Ted Rosengarten; an ethnography of various neighborhoods of Cambridge, by John A. Day; and other topics that occur or are suggested...
Suggestions, letters, critical comments and the like should be addressed to Dump Truck, care of the Crimson, and will be published in succeeding issues...