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...Jordan, then back home again to receive Syrian Head of State Noureddin Attassi on a return call. After receiving Aref in Amman, Jordan's King Hussein took off on a whirlwind visit to nine other Middle Eastern and Arab countries that would last ten days. Kuwait Prime Minister Jaber Al-Ahmed Es-Sabah dropped in on the Shah of Iran. Yugoslavia's President Josip Broz Tito wound up a three day visit in Cairo, went on to Syria for a day, Iraq for two more days and then back to Egypt for more talks with Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...back the Palestinian Arabs who once lived there (Israel at one time agreed to resettle 100,000 Arabs, but has since withdrawn the offer). The Palestinian Arabs are now wards of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Typical are the 32,235 refugees in UNRWA's Akbet Jaber Camp. a ragged sprawl of mud-brick huts roofed with reeds that is said to be Jordan's fourth largest city...
...first glance, Akbet Jaber looks like any provincial Arab town. Snack bars display turnips pickled in pink marinade. Butchers hawk fatty, flyspecked mutton hanging from great hooks in the ceilings of their stalls. On closer inspection, Akbet Jaber is a town noticeable for the absence of two things: trees and tradesmen's signs. The refugees have refused to plant trees because it might indicate a willingness to settle permanently. And the potter, the shoemaker, the shopkeeper are reluctant to advertise for fear of losing their U.N. doles and, in the process, appearing better off than Arab propagandists...
...Resettled. In Akbet Jaber's modern, whitewashed UNRWA food dispensary, refugees with ration cards line up once a month for issues of flour, sugar and rice equal to 1,600 calories daily. So desirable are the ration cards that a brisk black-market trade has their current market value at $430 apiece. Because of this, no one ever dies in Akbet Jaber or in any Arab refugee camp, or at least deaths are not reported, and the deceased's card is not surrendered. As a result, an estimated 300,000 card carriers are not refugees...
...MUHAMMAD JABER Arcata, Calif...