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...El Cajon, Calif...
...Palestine National Council, which met in Cairo last week, Nasser promised the fedayeen "unlimited moral and material support, without reservations or conditions." The 105-member council, which considers itself a Parliament in exile for the Palestinians, elected as its chairman Yasser Arafat (TIME Cover, Dec. 13), spokesman for El Fatah, the largest fedayeen organization. The post makes him the Palestinians' official representative to Arab governments and the collection agent for their contributions to the guerrilla movement. Even so, Arafat's election did nothing to bridge the rift between El Fatah and the rival fedayeen organizations that boycotted...
...Cabinet agreed to build up to ten nahals, or fortified settlements (one is already in operation in the northeastern Sinai). Israel will also establish three new towns in the occupied lands, one between Jericho and Jerusalem, another east of Hebron on the West Bank, and one at Sharm el-Sheikh, overlooking the Straits of Tiran. The Israelis have always maintained that they want to negotiate peace treaties with each of their Arab neighbors. Behind last week's decision was evidently a consensus that such treaties are beyond reach, and that Israel is not willing to let the Big Four...
Barrientos' best-remembered bit of do-it-yourself leadership came after two air force recruits fell to their deaths because their parachutes failed to open; newspapers and congressmen howled that military parachutes were faulty. Barrientos summoned newsmen to El Alto Airport at La Paz, ordered them to pick any chute in the military supply room. When they did, he strapped it on, went up and jumped himself. The criticism stopped...
...Lloyd's has increased MEA's premiums for war-risk coverage eighteenfold, and has imposed a ceiling on what it will pay henceforth: a maximum of $8,150,000 each for no more than two airplanes. Lloyd's is imposing similar conditions on Israel's El Al and all other airlines operating intensively in the Middle East area...