Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israelis are admittedly and purposefully tough in their efforts to stamp out guerrilla activities. Last week troops arrested 54 members of a major sabotage ring that had been operating along the West Bank of the Jordan; two other terrorists, caught in a cave north of Jerusalem, were killed trying to escape...
...Since 99 per cent of the findings are in fragments," said Cross, "it is essential that the scrolls be kept in one place so they can be pieced together." The Jordanian government deposited all the scrolls in the Palestine Museum in Old Jerusalem, an international institution founded with Rockefeller funds...
...Plans. Jordan's economy is in a state of suspended animation. Tourism is dead; without the Old City of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, Jordan is lucky to attract a dozen tourists a week. The loss of the West Bank deprived the nation of a quarter of its farmland, more than half its production of vegetables, olives and fruit, 30% of its wheat, 48% of its industry and nearly half of its 2.1 million people, including many of its wealthiest taxpayers. Unemployment, swelled by the flood of refugees, has soared to 35% and is still climbing; factories, unable to sell their...
Ustinov has chosen to view hippiedom as the social dawn of a New Jerusalem. A very pukka Sahib general (played with quaint and artful foxiness by Anthony Quayle) comes home from liquidating the white man's bumbling in Malaysia, only to find that his son and daughter have become neoprimitive natives of swinging England. His daughter (Margaret Linn) is complacently pregnant-by whom, she cannot be sure. His bearded guitar-laden son (Sam Waterston) looks "like a leftover from the Last Supper," and his so-called mistress is a breastless, hipless, bass-voiced androgyne. Ultimately, the general goes...
...least two trustworthy witnesses. Even according to the Gospels, none could be found. Why, then, did the Jewish authorities summon Jesus? Their motive, Cohn believes, may well have been a desire to recoup their waning popular prestige by saving a prophetic teacher beloved by the masses of Jerusalem. In Cohn's reconstruction of the events, the Sanhedrin first examined witnesses not to condemn Christ but to find men who would convincingly testify in his favor before the Romans. When it could find none, the high court attempted to persuade Jesus to plead not guilty before the Romans; he refused...