Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning after its swift and stunning victory in the "Six Day War," Israel awoke to vastly wider horizons and vastly expanded responsibilities. Suddenly the writ of Jerusalem had been extended over lands three times Is rael's prewar size, and over hostile Arab populations amounting to 1,330,000 people-nearly half Israel's own. How long would Israel want to hang onto such problems...
...Arkia, runs two full-load sightseeing flights a day from Tel Aviv that swing out over the Sinai for a look at the ruins of Nasser's tank corps, set down at Elath for lunch, then circle back via the Dead Sea and an aerial view of reunited Jerusalem. By the tens of thousands, blue-capped tourists in buses and cars race down the Mediterranean highway to gawk in Gaza and bargain-hunt for pottery, lamps and wicker goods in the bazaars. At first, miniskirted young Israeli sabras so excited Arab men, accustomed to women more thoroughly clothed, that...
Islam, their reasons may be as much emotional and fiscal as religious: last year Jordan's tourist income amounted to more than $35 million-most of it coming from Christians visiting the Old City. Israel's position is equally tough. "Jerusalem is not negotiable," says an aide to Premier Levi Eshkol. At most, the Israelis might agree to internationalization of non-Jewish shrines in the Old City-a solution favored by many Christian leaders...
...Whatever Jerusalem's future, residents of both the Old City and the New seem to feel that it is a healthier place without the barbed wire and no-man's-lands that divided it. Even some Arabs grudgingly agree with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban's contention that "the city can breathe with two lungs again." But until a permanent diplomatic solution is reached-and that will not be soon-it seems unlikely that the world has yet heard an answer to Isaiah's anguished prayer: "Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that...
...than his earlier journeys to India, the Holy Land, the U.S. and Portugal's Fatima. In Istanbul last week, the Pope had a warm and fraternal encounter with Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople-but there was none of the drama of their first meeting three years ago on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives. Though cordially received by predominantly Moslem Turkey, the Pope drew crowds modest by comparison with the millions who cheered him in Bombay and New York...