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...began with some remarks by Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, who often says out loud what most sophisticated Arabs say only in private. Returning home from a Middle Eastern tour in which he visited the Jordanian refugee camps near Jericho, where 71,000 Palestinian Arabs have languished for 17 years, Bourguiba declared that it was obviously impossible to erase Israel from the map by force and that therefore it made sense to accept its presence. He proposed that the long-festering refugee problem be settled on the basis of the 1947 United Nations partition plan, which would require Israel...
...Jerusalem Y's diplomatic ways are also respected by Jordanian Arabs. By acting as an unofficial consulate that issues certificates of religious affiliation for Christians wishing to go through the Mandelbaum Gate to the Old City, the Y has become one of the few sources of communication between the sectors of the divided city. In fact, it is generally so well thought of that next spring it will dedicate a new Y building in the predominantly Christian Arab town of Nazareth-with money raised in part by Israeli and Canadian Jews. Says Minard: "I'm optimistic about...
...original mosque, in what is now Jordanian Jerusalem, was built around the rock from which Mohammed supposedly rode to heaven on horseback in 632 A.D. The architecture was plain: a dome, 72 ft. in diameter, raised on a colonnaded drum to a peak of 116 ft. and set in the center of an octagon. But the decoration was splendid: quartered-marble paneling and glass mosaics on gold backgrounds...
Curved sheets of aluminum bronze alloy have replaced the lead on the dome, thus lightening the load from 200 to a mere 40 tons, and Egyptian and Jordanian architects have added an aluminum staircase inside it. New mosaics, tiles and marble from Italy, Greece, Turkey and Belgium have been set into the walls. The mosque is most resplendent after dark: for the first time, the Dome of the Rock is illuminated like a thousand Arabian nights, with indirect lighting inside and huge spotlights set on the grounds outside...
Drill a Little Deeper. Understandably eager for oil, little Jordan celebrated the spudding in of Mecom's first well in the olive groves and rolling hills north of Hebron. Mecom was banqueted by King Hussein, in turn entertained Jordanian officials with a dinner party at the new Jerusalem Intercontinental Hotel on the Mount of Olives. The jaunty young King spilled oil ceremonially over the rig, and a dozen lambs were slaughtered and sent to the poor in a good-luck ritual...