Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...build a façade of "Arab Unity" against the common Israeli enemy. In a swirl of fellowship and flowing robes, Arab Kings and Presidents embraced as brothers, organized the Palestine Liberation Organization, set up a joint Arab military command, and created a committee to plan the diversion of Jordan River headwaters flowing into Israel's Sea of Galilee. The façade has been crumbling almost ever since, and last week with the approach of the fourth such summit, scheduled for Algiers on Sept. 5, it had all but collapsed. Nasser, joined by his Arab Socialist allies...
Despite his systematic savagery, the slayer either miscounted or forgot the one victim-possibly because he had learned that eight girls lived in the house and did not realize that a ninth, Mary Ann Jordan, was spending the night. "While he was out of the room on one trip," Corazon recounted, "I rolled under the bunk bed clear against the wall. I stayed under the bed for hours and hours." Throughout the terror-filled night she lay frozen with fear, not knowing whether the murderer was still in the house or gone. At 5 a.m., an alarm clock went...
Ordering the first six girls to lie on the floor, the intruder used his knife to rip strips from a bunk-bed sheet and from a cotton dress, then tied the girls up. Meanwhile, three other nurses who had been out late-Sue Farris, Mary Jordan and Gloria Davy-returned home before their 12:30 a.m. curfew, were surprised by the intruder, and were forced to join his bedroom captives. "There were some light outcries by the girls who came in late, but it wasn't much," said Miss Amurao. "He made them lie on the floor with...
Gloria Davy lay nude and face down on a downstairs divan, strangled and mutilated. Sue Farris was stabbed nine times and strangled, her wrist-bound body left in a second-floor bathroom. Mary Ann Jordan's corpse was in a front bedroom, stabbed five times, including one thrust in the left eye and one in the heart. Next to her were Pat Matusek, strangled with wrists bound; and Pam Wilkening, also bound by the wrists, who had been stabbed in the heart. In the adjoining front bedroom sprawled Nina Schmale, bound at the wrists, gagged, knifed four times...
...operating out of Syria had been attacking Israeli border settlements, leaving behind dead and wounded. In reprisal, Eshkol sent supersonic fighters zipping eight miles into Syria near the Sea of Galilee. They destroyed earth-moving equipment used by the Arabs on a project to divert the sources of the Jordan River away from Israel. In an ensuing dogfight, Israel's air force bagged a Syrian MIG-21, the first ever to be shot down by a French-made Mirage...