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...peaceful solution have been cruelly shattered," declared Jordan's King Hussein. "Now that all peaceful methods have been exhausted, I appeal to you to declare jihad [holy war]," cried Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, in a plea addressed not only to the region's 100 million Arabs but also to the world's 600 million Moslems...
...members were responsible for hijacking a TWA jetliner, bound from Rome to Tel Aviv. Israeli jet fighters intercepted the diverted plane, but there was nothing they could do without endangering the 101 passengers and 12 crew members. The plane was forced to land at Syria's new $40 million airport at Damascus. There the hijackers herded everyone off, then exploded a bomb in the cockpit. Earlier, Jerusalem came under rocket attack. Three 6-ft.-long, 50-lb., Soviet-made Katyusha missiles'exploded harmlessly in the city. In London a small bomb exploded, injuring a woman in the office...
...Poland. A few days later, Adolf Hitler reviewed his all-conquering troops on Polish soil (above). The unprovoked attack touched off history's most widespread and cataclysmic conflict. Before World War II ended nearly six years later, it had involved 60 countries and claimed more than 50 million lives. This week, as wailing sirens in Warsaw and ceremonies across Poland marked the 30th anniversary of the German invasion, the Poles reminded the world that the first victims had suffered the most severely of all. In the grip of an especially brutal German occupation, 6,000,000 Poles died...
...unrepentant Nazis. Now, in an abrupt switch, Party First Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka has held out the promise of better relations in return for West German acceptance of the Oder-Neisse Line as Germany's legal eastern boundary. The motivation is economic: in search of up to $400 million to modernize their old plants, the Poles hope that a more friendly political atmosphere might bring in much-needed West German credits...
...answered: "No, I'm not going to call the President. Because if I do, he will tell me to cut $2 billion. No, I'm going to wait for the President to call me, and then I am going to tell him we can cut only $500 million. Then we'll be all right." And that, says Clifford's aide, was exactly the way it went...