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Jordan's Hussein can and does thank the U.S. for the continued existence of his tiny, beleaguered Middle East kingdom, now shored up by the U.S. at a rate of $50 million yearly. Hussein has sat six precarious years on his throne, twice since Suez alone has been almost toppled by attack without and within. Finally, in a bold and deliberate show of control, he left Amman in early March, traveled leisurely past Formosa and Hawaii, hit the U.S. mainland at San Francisco. In Washington, Hussein was greeted by Vice President Nixon, feted by President Eisenhower. Said...
...cable repair ship, said the U.S. note, had found in preliminary investigations that one cable had been badly scraped and scuffed for about a mile east of the break. The cable itself had obviously got fouled in the Novorossisk's trawling gear, been raised to the deck, then cut to release the nets. In all, there were twelve cuts in the five cables (nine tension breaks and three man-made cuts), all made in the vicinity of the trawler's operations. The U.S. reserved the right to make claims for damages and demanded that the Soviets take "such...
That such kind of talk could be heard in East Berlin is one of the continuing anomalies of the original four-power agreement made almost 14 years ago, which divided the city into east and west sectors. The Socialist Party is banned in East Germany itself, but it operates in East Berlin, just as the Communists are allowed to operate in West Berlin, where last December they got 1.9% of the vote. But the East Berlin Communists do all they can to frustrate the 8,000 registered Socialists in their midst...
...publish a newspaper, and have a hard time recruiting new members. Kurt Neubauer, perhaps the ablest of their leaders-who is a member of the West German Bundestag-operates out of an office in two stove-heated rooms on the ground floor of an old apartment house in East Berlin. A Socialist mass meeting that he got Communist permission to hold back in 1954 was such a success that the People's Police have since rejected applications for anything bigger than back-room rallies. And though the party is officially tolerated, members have been squeezed out of factory jobs...
...expiation of a political blunder. Justine's fevered racing from bed to bed is shown to be patriotism, not nymphomania, for she and Nessim are smuggling arms into Palestine. Nessim believes that only the creation of a strong Jewish state will save the isolated minorities of the Middle East-Copts, Greeks, Armenians, Jews-from "being gradually engulfed by the Arab tide...