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Rambling along the Gaza strip last week on a Moslem holiday tour of army bases and refugee camps, Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser heard a radio bulletin: the U.S. had approved a French shipment to Israel of twelve Mystère jet fighters out of its NATO stocks. Egypt's soldier-strongman blew up: the French jets, added to a dozen Mystères and 24 Ouragan jets already shipped, would undo much of the advantage Egypt had gained by buying Soviet-bloc arms...
...Distinction. Stopping the intermittent bloodletting on the Gaza strip was Hammarskjold's most dramatic effort (TIME, April 30), but winning peace pledges along Israel's northern and eastern frontiers turned out to be his trickiest assignment. The Syrians, echoed by Lebanon and Jordan, insisted that they would not agree to a cease-fire unless Israel first promised not to go through with its announced plan for drawing irrigation water from the Jordan River. Israel would make no such pledge. Stymied for days, Hammarskjold finally found a way through. Doubling back to Jerusalem, he made the point to Prime...
...that the national incomes of the U.S. and Western European nations would double "in just over 20 years." In the Middle East Egypt's aggressive Prime Minister Nasser and Israel's combative Ben-Gurion both promised U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold to enforce a ceasefire along the Gaza strip and the Negev. In London the touring Russians, Khrushchev and Bulganin (or Bim and Bom, in the oblique language of Russian jokesters), got the kind of social, personal and diplomatic chill that only the British can apply (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...with Yemenites gathered to celebrate the engagement of a young couple. An old woman was killed as she cradled in her arms her year-old grandson, who was unhurt. Another group of terrorists ambushed a bus on the main Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway, wounding six. One fedayee returned to Gaza to tell Egyptian newsmen how his team was surrounded by Israelis after blowing up a power station. "We heard voices calling: 'Surrender, donkeys.' We threw our grenades. We did not surrender, but they surrendered their lives...
...infiltrators. Clues were stiffening bodies, blown-up irrigation pipes, wrecked rail lines, burnt-out cars and trucks-a trail of death running between the fields of ripening corn, blossom-scented orange groves, drying creek beds and shifting dunes, to the shallow trench that divides Israel from the refugee-jammed Gaza strip. The Israelis killed eleven, captured four. One patrol stalked a returning assassin team for 18 hours, killed all five "self-sacrificers" as they hid in a clump of trees between Rehovoth and the border. Those captured proved no supermen. They said they had been trained in Cairo, dispatched...