Word: masri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mazuz Masri, 70, to Jerusalem by helicopter, threatened retribution if the elections did not take place, and ordered in additional troops to underline his warning and stifle the fedayeen. He also arrested the mayor's cousin-Hikmet Masri, a former speaker of the Jordanian Parliament-for suspected contacts with the guerrillas. At Dayan's order, Israeli soldiers refused to allow commercial traffic from Nablus to cross the Damiya Bridge over the Jordan River. That was a stunning blow to many merchants, who, despite the occupation, have been able to maintain prosperous traditional markets under the open-bridges policy...