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Syrian in a red tarboosh. Kando, as he is called, is the trusted link between finders and keepers; he is technically a "fence," for all scroll finds are officially the property of the Jordanian government, but Eastern pragmatism finds no difficulty in blessing his undercover role...
With the precious fragments in their soiled cigarette boxes, Kando journeys to the "Scrollery"-the Palestine Archaeological Museum in the Jordanian Old City of Jerusalem. There he usually receives the fees for his Bedouin clients (according to the size and condition of the bits of manuscript). And there an international-and inter-credal-task force of scholars takes over, trying to fit the fragments together in a vast, incredibly difficult jigsaw puzzle...
Curreatly, the scholars at Jerusalem are preoccupied with the worldly question of how and whom to pay for more fragments. While the largest single gift of money came from the Jordanian government under the old informal system much of the money for the Bedouin suppliers came from foreign foundations and universities that expected to keep the fragments after the scholars were done with their first studies. Now Jordan's nationalist government wants to abolish this system, keep all the manuscripts in the country but still get the money, either for the Bedouins or for itself. While negotiations are going...
...neighbors. They have shown up the extent of Soviet penetration in the Middle East by capturing huge stockpiles of tanks, guns and motorized equipment. They have shown up the hollowness of Nasser's vaunted four-power pact, signed just before the Sinai invasion, by which Syrian, Saudi and Jordanian troops were supposed to march under Egyptian command. And the first frightened session of desert kings that convened after the Sinai rout in Beirut last November signaled a shift which may well make last week's Cairo session the last get-together of "positive-neutrality" Arabs...
...well did Hussein's blast suit the capital's changing mood that when Jordanian crowds took to the streets last week to celebrate the agreement ending Jordan's long alliance with Britain, they shouted praise for Hussein rather than for the Nationalist ministers who negotiated...