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Word: jerusalem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perilous, seemingly impossible ' assignment of exploring the secret world of the Arab commandos for this week's cover story fell principally to Beirut Bureau Chief Edward Hughes. Meanwhile Jerusalem Stringer Marlin Levin and Rome Correspondent John Shaw pursued essential details on the Israeli side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Dec. 13, 1968 | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...desolate quarter of Jerusalem, I met a schoolteacher cousin of Arafat, who said she would recollect what she could and tell me if 1 would come to her apartment in a few days, but only after dark. Two nights later, we met in her house at the end of an unlighted stony track at the edge of Jerusalem. She spoke willingly, but when I asked her why she insisted on seeing me at night, she said only, 'It is Ramadan and we fast during the day; I could not serve you coffee before dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Dec. 13, 1968 | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...like Christmas seals, bearing a picture of a burned child and the words "Shalom and Napalm"-a reference to the use of napalm by Israelis in last August's reprisal raid on the Jordanian town of Salt. Other stamps show a guerrilla fighter, a monument to martyrs or Jerusalem, with the slogan: "Palestinian Resistance." The money raised, of course, goes to buy bullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GUERRILLA THREAT IN THE MIDDLE EAST | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...policy of keeping connections between Jordan and the West Bank open. Now trucks coming from Jordan must unload on one side, and the goods are reloaded into Israeli vehicles on the other side, all under the watchful eyes of po- lice. Police barricades have been set up outside Jerusalem and more green-be-reted civil guards called up to reserve duty. At Israeli schools, teachers are now being lectured on anti-terrorist tactics and given courses in first aid, and schoolchildren are instructed in how to identify mines. Cinema ushers and janitors are undergoing training to learn how to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Israeli Assessment | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...fedayeen have staged some 1,000 incidents over the last year, and killed or wounded over 900 Israelis. When a school bus struck one of their mines last March, 28 children were wounded and two adults killed. In August, the guerrillas managed to terrorize the population of Jerusalem and in the bargain set off an anti-Arab riot by a series of grenade attacks. In September, they struck for the first time at Tel Aviv, where a commando bomb in a wastebasket outside the bus station killed one Israeli and wounded another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Catalogue of Violence | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

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