Word: jaffa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, organized Arab bands of about 100 each struck again, at Jewish settlements along the coast below Jaffa and at Ramat Rachel, only three miles from Jerusalem. Again British forces intervened and drove off the attackers. At week's end, Jews blew up the "Bridge of Jacob's Daughters" over the River Jordan to cut one of the main Arab invasion routes into northern Palestine...
...which New Jersey's cargo was addressed. In Jerusalem's sacred Old Walled City, violent fighting broke out. Arabs claimed that the Jews started it, retaliated with "Molotov cocktails" (bottles filled with gasoline and ignited). At week's end, Jewish terrorists blasted Arab headquarters in Jaffa and Jerusalem, killed 34, wounded 100. At sunrise one morning, on the Mount of Olives, the Jews of Jerusalem buried their own dead of the last week's fighting, while British soldiers stood guard against Arab snipers. The living, among both Jews and Arabs, prepared for full-fledged war after...
...request of Lawrence M. Jaffa 2Div., regional chairman for the National Student Association, the committee's findings will also be referred to the NSA if its bill of rights has been violated. This would mainly consist of nationwide publicity for the case...
...Jaffa's request was made after HYD chairman Harry A. Mendelssohn '48 bad labelled the faculty decision "a clear violation of the NSA bill of rights...
Members of the mediating group include Lawrence Jaffa 2D, New England Regional Chairman of NSA and chairman of the sub-committee which drew up the terms of affiliation; Donald Fraser, of the University of Minnesota: Martin McLaughlin, of Notre Dame: and William Birenbaum, of the University of Chicago...