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...Egypt with hints that it might find itself driven to preventive war, and denounced Eden's talk of border compromises as "dismemberment," last week admitted privately they might have been too abrupt. They talked of a corridor across the Negev, of giving Jordan free access to the port of Haifa, of compensation for the 900,000 Palestine Arab refugees huddled on its borders. (The U.N. commission which feeds and shelters the refugees believes the problem will never be solved until the Israelis offer to take back a token number of them...
...ceremonial blow dramatized the Iranian government's outlawing of the Bahai religion in the land where it was born and began the conversion of Bahai national headquarters into a secular building. All over the world, from the lakeside gentility of Chicago to Israel's port city of Haifa, Bahai voices rose in protest...
...their founders as essentially one. They concentrate their own efforts not on individual salvation but on the achievement of universal peace. "We are one up on Christianity," says white-haired Leroy loas (pronounced Iowaas), a retired Chicago railroad manager, who serves as secretary general of the international council at Haifa. "Christ never mentioned universal peace in his teachings." Peace-striving Bahais plug for internationalism (the U.N.) and against treaty arrangements "based on force" (NATO). The sect's current head, Shoghi Effendi Rabbani, is in his fifties, lives in Haifa with his Canadian-born wife, and presides over a spiritual...
...Union of American Hebrew Congregations in Los Angeles. Another major topic: Israel. What that country needs, said Rabbi Herbert Weiner (Temple Israel, South Orange, N.J.), is a relaxed form of Judaism like Reform. Rabbi Weiner urged a three-year experimental religious program there, including a "pilot" Reform synagogue in Haifa. Israelis, he said, should have some other alternative. "The tragedy of religion in Israel is that [if] expends so much passion on the dietary laws that it seems to have little time left over for concern with the laws which deal with the problems of man living with...
...Haifa (May 30-June 10): 28th festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music. Four orchestra and two chamber-music concerts of compositions by contemporary composers from around the world, beginning with the world premiere of Odyssey of a Race, written for Israel by Brazil's Heitor Villa-Lobos...