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...Haj Mazuz Masri, 70, to Jerusalem by helicopter, threatened retribution if the elections did not take place, and ordered in additional troops to underline his warning and stifle the fedayeen. He also arrested the mayor's cousin-Hikmet Masri, a former speaker of the Jordanian Parliament-for suspected contacts with the guerrillas. At Dayan's order, Israeli soldiers refused to allow commercial traffic from Nablus to cross the Damiya Bridge over the Jordan River. That was a stunning blow to many merchants, who, despite the occupation, have been able to maintain prosperous traditional markets under the open-bridges...
Asifa is the military arm of a group called El Fatah, which is a reverse acronym standing for the Arabic words Harakat Tahrir Falastin (Movement for the Liberation of Palestine). By itself, El Fatah means "Conquest." One of El Fatah's top leaders is Haj Amin Husseini, the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Since the first of the year, Asifa claims to have made 13 raids into Israel to commit acts of "strategic sabotage," that is, the dynamiting of reservoirs and kibbutz buildings...
...like Nasser, has accepted lavish Soviet aid. Premier Kassem last week fired the entire executive committee of the Iraq Press Association on the vague ground that they were "serving Communism and deriving their inspiration exclusively from Sputniks." Taking over as the new press-association president, pro-Nasser Publisher Al Haj Taha al Fayez rapped out an angry editorial in his daily Al-Fajr al-Jadid: "The sun of the Communists has set. The Communist countries are falling to bits through starvation and ruination...
...sacred vessels,-potential mothers, rather than as what they obviously were." With less restraint than Hedda Hopper, the biographer names the vessels Mayer may or may not have embraced. On one of his frequent European talent safaris, reports Crowther, Mayer was completely entranced with an unknown Hungarian actress named Haj-massy; he signed her to a contract as Ilona Massey immediately after a dance floor accident, when a broken shoulder strap "exposed a great deal more than was normally intended of the actress' smooth poitrine...
...Aziz al Haj, editorial writer for Baghdad's pro-Communist Ittihad al Shaab, protested that his paper had sought only to serve the country by exposing plots against it. Kassem brusquely cut him off. "Be quiet!" he snapped. "Every paper claims to be the only sincere one. Sons of the people are all one force. I follow the whole, not a certain party. Any party is a minority, and let there be no mistake: the people can crush the anarchists...