Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during the disastrous Greek-Turkish war in 1922. As regimes changed, his antimonarchist father, a professor of law, was hired or fired. The young poet lived as a diplomat or political exile in a bewildering succession of places-Albania, Crete, South Africa, Egypt, Italy, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq. During World War II, when the Germans and Italians occupied Greece, he remained with his government in exile. From 1957 until 1961, he was Greece's Ambassador to London. He once wrote...
Near Philadelphia, the three men were arrested on a speeding charge by Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price, 29. Soon, said James E. Jordan, 41, who received $8,000 from the FBI and has been living safely in Georgia and Florida since turning informer nearly three years ago, the word went swiftly around Meridian that there were some "civil rights workers locked up and they need their rear ends torn...
...Jordan and seven others, he said, armed themselves and drove to Phil adelphia. There they parked by the courthouse where Ethel Glen ("Hop") Barnett, 45, current Democratic nominee for sheriff of Neshoba County and one of the defendants, told them to wait. Two uniformed men in a city police car informed them that the prospective victims had been released. Later they were told by men in a highway patrol car that the victims would be stopped somewhere down the highway by Deputy Sheriff Price, who, along with Neshoba Sheriff Lawrence Rainey, is now on trial...
...third of Egypt's 700 lost tanks, only half of its 50 bombed-out bombers and almost none of its heavy guns. Russia, moreover, has long since stopped its emergency postwar airlift of weapons to Cairo. The Syrians, whom Moscow distrusts, have received even fewer offensive arms. Jordan has so far been unable to beg or borrow a single weapon for its hard-hit army, and its air force, destroyed during the war, is still without a single plane...
...Ayeleth's concrete shelters, and sang "We Shall Overcome" to the faint crump of Syrian shells. The shelter's occupants were not as sure of their impending triumph as foreign experts. They knew only that if Syrian troops swarmed down from the brown hills across the Jordan, they would have to fight to the last woman and child. The Syrians would leave no one alive. "I was not afraid," says Naomi without hesitation, "Only worried--about my brother...