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...catch was that to the Lebanese, business means bartering, and bartering is both an art and an adventure. So MEA's chairman, Sheik Najib Alamuddin, proposed to the British that his company would make partial payment for the jets in the form of surplus Lebanese apples; this would work out very nicely for the sheik, who is himself one of Lebanon's biggest apple-growers. The British, however, did not like them apples. Another idea-forming a British Aircraft Corp. subsidiary that would lease the planes to the Lebanese-was dashed last week when the British government revoked...
...quickly saw that shaky MEA could not fly solo, first enlisted the help of Pan American, then of BOAC, and finally of Air France, which got a 30% share of the line last year when Middle East merged with Air Liban. Gradually he built up an organization, trained a staff and carefully picked efficient routes. Today Middle East has a predominantly modern fleet that includes 12 jet and turboprop planes for scheduled routes, six DC-3s and a DC-4 in reserve. Backed by Beirut's Intra Bank and its shrewd chairman, Yusuf Bedas (who owns a 55% share...
...Shabbos! Shabbos!" Blau and his partisans take their religion so seriously that they even refuse to recognize the state of Israel. To that end, Blau refuses to touch Israeli money. His weekly bulletin is the only publication in Israel without a license from the government. In Mea She'arim, Blau's word is law, and periodically he has also tried to enforce his views on the rest of Jerusalem. Before police could stop him, he often dashed onto the field at Saturday soccer games to steal the ball from the players and run off shouting "Shabbos! [Sabbath] Shabbos...
Blau's followers in the Neturei Karta number about 350 families, but they can muster some 3,000 other Orthodox Jews from Mea She'arim for their periodic protests against Israeli secularism. Last year they picketed a public swimming pool that permitted mixed bathing, after Blau warned that "Jerusalem will be turned into a huge brothel...
...Blasphemy! Heresy!" Blau has been fighting Zionism since he was old enough to grow a beard. Grandson of a Hungarian immigrant who helped build Mea She'arim in the 19th century, Blau learned as an article of faith that the Jews had been dispersed from ancient Israel for their sins. Since only the Messiah could re-establish Israel, Blau naturally looked upon the efforts of Chaim Weizmann to set up a secular Jewish state as nothing less than blasphemy...