Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visual, the principal object of attention was Israel. Syria claimed Israeli artillery fire had halted work on the Arab project to divert the headwaters of the Jordan, called for a unified Arab air strike to silence Israel's guns. Still angry about West Germany's recognition last month of Israel, Syria urged joint 'economic sanctions against the Bonn government, raised again the proposal that all members of the Arab League establish relations with East Germany instead. The Syrian delegate even demanded that Tunisia, whose President, Habib Bourguiba, had recommended negotiations instead of war with Israel, be expelled...
...answer. Next day Williams got up again. Neither Rules Committee Chairman Everett Jordan, a stodgy North Carolina Democrat, nor any other committee Democrats were there. Said Williams: "The members of the majority thus far have not seen fit either to repudiate or to repeat the allegations. Do they have the guts to stand up and support them...
Finally, an answer. Chairman Jordan had arrived in the chamber, sat with hands folded in his lap while Williams spoke, then delivered a lame reply: "It would be highly out of order for me to engage in a discussion of the working draft until the committee has met and acted...
...INHERITANCE (NBC, 2-3 p.m.). A recreation of Biblical history through filmed explorations of Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan and Israel. Color...
...birthday gift from the children of the 70-year-old Canadian liquor magnate. Billy Rose estimates that his garden cost $1,600,000. But no one seems to mind a bit that this whole art complex lies within gunshot of the barbed-wire border of Jordan. Only the Isaiah scroll in Kiesler's shrine can lower into the safety of a bombproof pit. Explained Rose: "If there are a couple of million people who are willing to gamble flesh and blood on Israel, I don't see why I can't gamble a few tons of stone...