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Another International Activities summer project, however, is still proceeding under full steam, the Committee disclosed last night, when it appointed Lawrence M. Jaffa 1 Dv to lead the Italian Work group...
During the business portion of the meeting, special elections were held to fill vacant committee chairmanships and the post of Treasurer. Veterans affairs will be under the direction of Irving Dysart 2L, and membership recruiting, Charles Conkin '48. Lawrence Jaffa 2G will be responsible for maintenance of the treasury. Dick Rives '45 Occ reported for the Student Council that the chapter was invited to send a 20-man team to Europe this summer for rehabilitation work...
...customers in the bazaars of King David's Street. But the vendors were wary and sharp-eyed. Any sudden movement of police or soldiers was likely to bring the clang of rung-down iron shutters, a scurrying for cover. For in Jerusalem (or Haifa or Tel-Aviv or Jaffa) sudden action might mean an exchange of shots. "It is our worst year," said one Arab. "There is no spirit for Ramadan...
Electric tension gripped Jerusalem. Outside the Jaffa Gate the tension was even greater. A Government "fortress" went up last week in the heart of the New City. The British evicted shopkeepers and business firms along Jaffa Road, stretched tangles of barbed wire from rooftops to the ground and along the road. Sandbagged guard posts manned by grim-faced infantrymen and paratroopers in maroon berets hemmed in the precincts of the British rulers. Tommy gunners covered everyone entering Barclay's Bank to cash a check. The Post Office, Government Lands Office, Overseas Airways office jittered as Jewish extremists carried...
...country's richest agricultural land in the valleys of Sharon and Esdraelon, and the coastal plain to which their forefathers aspired from Moses' time down to 100 B.C. (they lost control of it to the Romans some 40 years later). The Arabs would get an enclave around Jaffa; the rest of their share would be mostly hilly pastureland. The British would hold on to Jerusalem and Bethlehem, and to the barren triangle from Beersheba south to the strategic base of Aqaba...