Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sell a $500 million Israeli bond issue in the U.S. Israel, it was pointed out. is taking in some 6,000 refugees a week, and needs help badly. Nothing was said, however, about the people who became refugees as a result of Israel's birth-the 880,000 Palestinian Arabs uprooted by the Arab-Israeli war.* In December 1948, a U.N. resolution suggested that Israel take them back, but up to now Israel has successfully dodged the issue...
...Middle East, and ruthless enemy of the West. Spent most of World War II in Berlin. In 1946, while awaiting trial in Paris as a war criminal, he escaped, since then has lived in Egypt as King Farouk's honored guest. Ambition: to be head of an independent Palestinian state. Methods: 1) recruiting of an Arab army from the 800,000 bitter, hopeless refugees driven from their homes by the Arab-Israeli war; 2) murder and terrorism through such groups as his own "Salvation Army," the Moslem Brotherhood, the Crusaders of Islam. His most recent victim: Jordan...
Thus the bloody trail seemed to lead, at least indirectly, to Egypt, and a brown three-story villa off Avenue Fuad in Cairo's exclusive Heliopolis suburb. There, in exile, guarded by the Egyptian police of his friend King Farouk, plus ten Palestinian toughs, sits the Mufti, the Middle East's greatest malcontent and plotter. The Mufti hated Abdullah because he had counted on Abdullah's arms to whip the Jews, whereupon the Mufti would take over all Palestine. Instead, Abdullah made peace with the Jews and personally annexed parts of Palestine to his tiny kingdom...
...Amman airport in Abdullah's limousine. At a lonely stretch of the road a strange car ripped past, Tommy-gun fire burst from its windows. El Solh was shot through jaw and heart, instantly killed. The assassins: Mihkail el Dib, a Lebanese, and Mohammed Salah, a Palestinian Arab, both members of the Syrian National Party. One of the men was killed by police; the other reportedly took his own life...
...Spring Lake invitation tennis tournament, over Bill Talbert, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3; in Spring Lake, NJ. ¶The U.S. yacht Malabar XIII, the 4,4OO-mi. international race from Havana to San Sebastian, Spain; in 28 days, arriving 48 hours ahead of its nearest rival. ¶Palestinian, the $57,100 Brooklyn Handicap, one of U.S. racing's oldest stakes (first running: 1887), over Sheilas Reward, by a length; in New York. ¶ David Stanley of Los Angeles, the national public links golf championship, over Ralph Vranesic of Denver, 1 up on the 38th hole; in Milwaukee...