Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arab Jerusalem, but in accordance with a plan proposed by Deputy Premier Yigal Alton and secretly approved by the Cabinet four weeks ago (TIME, Feb. 7), they are settling the Golan Heights, cutting roads for new villages in the Sinai, and establishing a string of fortified settlements overlooking the Jordan River. One such settlement is at Kallia, on the northwest tip of the Dead Sea. TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin visited Kallia and last week sent this report...
...treasures of the Dead Sea scrolls. At Ain (spring) Feshkha, a favorite spa of ancient Rome's 1 Oth Legion officers, waters still ripple out of the otherwise lifeless ground. When Israeli armor appeared on June 7, 1967, Kallia's Arab defenders had vanished across the Jordan River, leaving buildings, installations and many vehicles intact. For a time, Kallia was merely another dot on Israeli military maps of the occupied territories. Then, just a year ago, the soldier-farmers of Nahal, an acronym in Hebrew meaning "pioneering fighting youth," were dispatched to Kallia. Their mission: to protect Kallia...
...Jordan River to Jerusalem, and each morning the first order of the day is inspection. The dirt tracks that lead through Kallia's fields must be minutely examined for mines that fedayeen infiltrators from Jordan may have planted during the night. Until that task is completed, no one is allowed to venture out of the settlement to farm. The boys do the rough work in the fields, the girls work in the kitchen and care for Kallia's menage of 450 ducks, eight dogs and a mule...
...Radcliffe sophomore was stabbed at 12:30 p.m. last night in the dining room of Jordan J by an unidentified blond man. The man ran out of the dorm immediately after stabbing Minnie Liu '71 in the thigh with a knife. He reportedly came into the dorm "looking for girls," grabbed the girl on bells, who screamed and ran into the dining room; he followed her, and stabbed Miss Liu, who had her back to him. Miss Liu was taken to the University Health Services, and is reportedly in no danger. As of 1:30 a.m. this morning, Cambridge police...
Yesterday's merger recommendation follows a trend toward total coeducation that really began only out of necessity during World War II. Even then, it was a man--Radcliffe President Wilbur K. Jordan--who had to make the first moves. In 1943, coeducational classes began when Harvard agreed to assume responsibility for all instruction and Radcliffe agreed to split its tuition with Harvard...