Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jordan's beleaguered King Hussein, having to contend with Israel last week proved less of a problem than dealing with the Arab world. In the wake of Israel's four-hour retaliatory raid against the Jordanian border village of Samu (TIME, Nov. 25), Hussein suddenly found himself criticized by prac tically every Arab country and buffeted at home by the seething discontent of his people, most of whom favor a much tougher line toward Israel than the moderate King has seen fit to take...
Also Sally S. Seaver, of Moors Hall and Fayetteville, N.Y. (Chemistry); Ethel M. Silverman, of Comstock Hall and Clifton, N.J. (Biology); Elizabeth K. Smith, of Coggeshall House and Lorain, Ohio (Economics); Anita E. Spertus, of Jordan W and Glencoe, III. (Near Eastern Languages); Eleanor B. Swift, of Whitman Hall and Chicago (History); and Nancy L. Uhlar, of Wolbach Hall and Valley Stream, N.Y. (History and Literature...
...most daring exploit yet, they even reached the outskirts of Jerusalem, where they bombed an apartment building only a mile from the home of Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol. Sometimes they crossed over from Lebanon, sometimes from Syria, where they were actually based. But more often, they sneaked in through Jordan, where King Hussein seemed powerless to stop them. Last week, Israel finally struck back with the white-hot fury of the desert sun itself, launching its biggest, bloodiest, boldest reprisal since the Suez campaign ten years...
...Regrettable" Target. Why did Israel attack Jordan rather than Syria, which was the guerrilla home base? That was what Israel's angry opposition parties demanded of Eshkol after the invasion. In a special parliamentary debate, Eshkol ticked off 14 major acts of sabotage carried out from Jordan in the past year, climaxed by a land-mine explosion that killed three Israeli troops on Nov. 12. "It is regrettable," said Eshkol, "that this particular act of aggression came from Jordan." But since it did, he picked Jordan as his target. "No country where the saboteurs find shelter and through whose...
...have given him an identifiable and saleable personality. He never even wrote the kind of novels in which some character would turn up again and aeain and enable the reader to say, "There he goes," as in the case of a Lieut. Henry, a Jake Barnes or a Robert Jordan, who shed a romantic backward luster on the author...