Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forget thee, O Jerusalem...
...newcomers who in a generation or two wrested the land away from them. For the Moslems, too, Palestine has sacred connotations: tradition holds that the Prophet visited Heaven by ascending a ladder of light from the spot that is now marked by the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem...
Captured: Nine Generals. The human cost of the war reflected its unequal outcome. The military death toll was estimated by Jerusalem at 2,000 Syrians, 8,000 Jordanians, 10,000 Egyptians-and 679 Israelis. The Israelis captured 11,500 Arab soldiers (including nine generals), returned 6,000 of them, and offered to send back the rest in exchange for the 16 Israeli P.O.W.s, mostly downed pilots, held by the Arabs. In money terms, Israel estimated that the war cost it only $100 million, against $2 billion for the Arabs. The Israelis captured several times their own outlay's worth...
...some exchanges" with the Russians-the first hard news on use of the hot line. Lady Bird tugs L.B.J. out of the light, but he returns. The Israelis are not going to give up easily what they have won, he says; they have always talked about Jerusalem, the west bank of the Jordan, the Syrian heights, Aqaba. Would they reach Suez? The President did not feel that anything would stop them. Good night, Dan. Good night, Mr. President...
Married. Jacqueline Du Pré, 22, Britain's ample (5 ft. 9 in.), exuberant mistress of the cello; and Daniel Barenboim, 24, her occasional concert partner; in Jerusalem, after Jacqueline converted to Judaism...