Word: hebron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This worked all right through the summer, but now the rainy season is approaching; floods from the hills of Hebron will soon make the airlift impossible. Ben-Gurion met last week with his chiefs and decided to act. Having ordered picked Israeli troops to the Negeb front, the government (as required by the Bernadotte ruling) informed U.N. truce officials that they would move a convoy over the disputed highway between the stipulated hours. When the convoy moved down the highway, the Egyptians (as the Israelis had foreseen) opened fire. The second U.N. truce came to a blazing...
...number of correspondents are. living at the Y.M.C.A. The "Y" secretary has been trying to get the place declared a neutral international zone-sort of hallowed ground like the Holy Sepulchre. The trouble is that it stands on a hill which dominates the old city and the road to Hebron. And it has a tower 176 ft. high-ideal for snipers. Both Arab and Jewish authorities have listened politely to a committee of worried pressmen. But the answer has amounted to this: O.K. in principle, but we're afraid we can't guarantee that some of our people...
...illustrated the war and the war-crimes trials. It also recalled the fierce word pictures of how Old Testament warriors dealt with their enemies. It showed the mutilated bodies of 35 young Haganah fighters who had been ambushed by Arabs at Kfar Etzion, in the lonely hills of Hebron...
Handicraft. In Hebron, Neb., Bandit Gene ("Three Gun") Howell carved his way out of the county jail with razor blades...
After eight hours at Hebron, the Marvita moved downshore to Nutak, then on to the Eskimo capital at Nain. Before the final count at Battle Harbour next month, she would stop at 37 Labrador hamlets hugging 800 miles of rugged coastline...