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...Most popular theory is that Sinai is Jebel Musa (Mount of Moses), an impressive 8,000-ft. of granite in the southern end of the Sinai peninsula. Part of the Greek monastery of St. Catherine there dates back to 330 A.D., indicating how old the tradition is. But to get to Jebel Musa, Moses would have had to lead his people through the Egyptian copper and turquoise mines in the area...
...expedition into the Sinai peninsula to seek evidence that would back up their theory. But the Israeli army was in no mood to wait for the archaeologist's word. Last week a jeep-borne band of soldiers barreled down from their base in the Sinai peninsula to Jebel Musa. There they climbed the 737 steps in the sheer rock to plant the Israeli flag where they were sure that Moses talked to God. At the nearby monastery of St. Catherine they picked the soldier with the best handwriting, and he wrote in the visitor's book...
...mind runs a torrent of history. Sometimes he knows the names of the merchant princes who shipped the jug of wine. He knows the temple, now disappeared, for which a cargo of marble columns was intended. He wonders, while the brilliant fish flutter around his head, why one Fadius Musa, a rich merchant of ancient Narbonne, loaded his ship so heavily with marble that the sea dragged it down...
...problem of the bedraggled bands of boys left homeless by the Palestine war. In Jerusalem he saw hundreds of them, skulking about the bazaars, living in back alleys, begging or stealing a few piasters wherever they could. The orphanages and refugee camps around were already overflowing. Finally, Musa al-Alami hit on the idea of setting up a Boystown on his land...
...thrive on their new life. Last week, with the offer of a $149,000 grant from the Ford Foundation, Alami was bubbling with expansion plans. Among them: bigger & better carpentry and tailoring shops, a flour mill, dairy farm or macaroni factory to sell products to surrounding villages. Says "Uncle" Musa: "I've never had a family. Now I have the most wonderful family a man could ask for." His hope: a Boystown big enough for a family...