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Covert Offensive. The incident that touched off last week's Gaza flare-up might have happened any day. Israeli soldiers, their command cars stacked with small arms, sped on routine border patrol close to an Egyptian command post. Suddenly there was shooting. Caught in the open without cover, the Israelis, guns blazing, crossed the border and took the command post. When they retired, they left three Egyptians dead...
There are half a million Jews in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, and no one knows whether or when they will be caught up in the flare of violence in North Africa. Even before last week's rioting, 80,000 North African Jews had applied for free transportation to Israel, but last week the Jewish Agency's Immigration Committee set the country's "absorptive capacity" for this year at 45,000, and doubted that it could scrape together enough money to transport even that many. Israel cannot absorb large numbers of newcomers without grave risk to its burdened...
Strongman Juan Perón changed his Foreign Minister and shook up his police command last week, leading some observers to think they smelled the smoke of a flaming crisis. One rumor even had it that Perón himself might resign the next day. But there was no flare-up, only the volcanic smoke and rumbles normal to Perón's Argentina...
Smiling Front. Harold Talbott left Washington amid a flash of splendor, a flare of ill-temper, and no sign that he yet understood why he was going. Talbott was enraged when he read that Secretary Wilson had told a press conference: "I was very distressed about the whole [Talbott] business. I don't like any part of it . . . I feel I have gotten one year older." Talbott stalked into Wilson's office, crowded with reporters and cameramen focusing on his successor, Don Quarles...
...Danish authorities think they have got around this by using ⅓ cc. under the skin.) Some experts oppose injections of any kind into the muscle during the polio season because they fear that the needle may provoke a flare-up by a latent polio infection that otherwise would have done no harm. Dr. Salk did not feel that this objection was decisive, but would leave the verdict to local health officers...