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...Israeli community that would accept his missionaries. Only ten of the nation's 275 kibbutzim agreed to the idea, and even then the first team that went out to a Negev collective last year found it hard to make friends. The second group, twelve young Germans installed at Kibbutz Ba-han on the Jordan frontier, has had an easier time. Each morning they rise at 5:30 a.m. and head for their assigned chores. Some work on tractors, others in cauliflower gardens or the citrus orchards. Admits a leader of the collective: "We were short of hands until they...
...families at "Kibbutz Bahan do not quite know what to make of these outward signs of German repentance. "We cannot believe that Germany has changed since the Nazi period," says a youth hostel leader. "Yet we do know that these guests represent new forces in Germany...
...change things, to use whatever influence I have for welfare, peace and the brotherhood of man." Everywhere he was on his best behavior. In Japan, he ignored geisha comforts for the sake of solemn discussions of international politics. In Israel, he drank honeyed tea, spent evenings visiting kibbutz farmers, mornings sunning himself in the private glory of red pajamas...
With nary a peep from Pop - Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater -Peggy said that after a few years at Washington, D.C.'s Mount Vernon Junior Col lege, she would like to spend a year trying the wind-blown life on an Israeli kibbutz (collective farm). Barry Jr. said that if the U.S. Air Force does not accept him, he might join the Peace Corps, which his father once warned would attract "a bunch of beatniks who wouldn't work" but has since praised...
...Similar reasoning prompted Britain's Jewish publisher, Victor Gollancz, to suggest that Eichmann be sent to a kibbutz (collective farm) in Israel, "where he would live in an atmosphere of Christian (or, rather, Jewish) love, and he might learn the right way of living and repent his appalling sins...