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...Cornell match was never in doubt as the Crimson won seven of the first nine bouts. Cornell's strongest weapon had been the epee, but Gaza Tatrallyay led Harvard's trio to its 6-3 victory...
...construction of a new road from Kallia to En Gedi, another settlement 25 miles to the south on the Dead Sea. "We could have built the road in half the time," says Dani, "but we wanted to give the Arabs work." Most of the road workers are from the Gaza refugee camps. The pay is good, they say, twice as much as they got under the Egyptians...
...they dispersed throughout the Middle East. They endured the scorn of their host populations toward outsiders, although the most skilled and educated came to dominate many areas of Arab intellectual and commercial life. Those that did not assimilate settled in crowded camps, mostly in Jordan and the Gaza Strip, where they lived a miserable, subsistence life, fed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency...
...conviction that the Arabs could never de feat the Israelis with conventional armies. Throughout the 1950s, he had organized "cells" among Palestinian students abroad and studied the techniques of Algerian guerrillas. At that time, Nasser had organized forerunners of today's fedayeen among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and used them to stir up the border, a role they took on with sufficient enthusiasm to help bring about Israel's decision to launch...
...government reaction in Jerusalem, Israeli officials tended to dismiss the report as simply "good public relations," and restated their position that no peace is possible unless the Egyptians negotiate directly with them. Many observers believe that it was the May 1967 withdrawal of U.N. troops from Sinai and Gaza at Nasser's request that led to the war, but the question of U.N. troops is now only one of the problems to be dealt with in any peace negotiations. And before the troops return, the U.N. would certainly seek assurances that they would not be obliged to leave just...