Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gold reserves are expected to dip perilously low. In Syria, which lost the vital revenues from two oil pipelines, the capital city of Damascus began rationing food last week. Lebanon's $85 million-a-year tourist industry, meantime, has all but dried up. Hardest hit is Jordan: it lost not only the tourist-rich Old City of Jerusalem but, at least for the time being, the agricultural lands on the west bank of the Jordan River. In Washington last week, King Hussein did not have to remind President Johnson that even in the best of times, his country...
Over the Bridge. Unfortunately, such postwar amity was chiefly confined to Jerusalem. Long streams of Arab refugees who felt anything but brotherhood for the Jews were still scrambling over the wreckage of the Allenby Bridge into what remained of Jordan. Nearly 200,000 Arabs have fled from the west bank of the Jordan since its capture by Israel four weeks ago, and the flow shows no signs of stopping...
...exodus is hardly pleasing to either side. Jordan is simply not equipped to take care of so many hungry, homeless people. Israel, which at first was delighted by the mass departure, was growing increasingly embarrassed by it all. Last week the government ruled that no Arab could cross into Jordan with out a signed statement from the mayor of his town testifying that he was not leaving because of Israeli coercion. Pictures of Arabs fleeing from Jewish oppression, real or imagined, were hardly what Israel needed to convince the world that its objectives were not conquest but peace...
Work for Mukhtars. Despite all the tensions, throughout most of the Israeli-occupied areas of Jordan life was returning to normal. The governor of what had once been Jordanian Jerusalem was out of a job, and the mayor of Jericho had fled to Amman; the mayors and mukhtars of more than 50 other towns were back at their desks, and Arab police were back on their beats...
...refugee problem, which for the past 19 years has probably been the greatest single source of enmity between Israel and the Arab states, has been made vastly more complex by the war. Tens of thousands of new refu gees have left their homes in Israeli-held portions of Jordan and Syria. About 600,000 old refugees, most of them in the festering, hate-ridden camps of the Gaza Strip, have come under Israeli control. For Israel, it is vital that the refugees be taken out of the camps and resettled where they can lead productive lives. To most Arab leaders...