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...House of Rest) is a dusty little village in the Jordan Valley inhabited mostly by Sephardic Jews, who immigrated to Israel from North Africa. According to the Book of Samuel, the community is the place where the victorious Philistines hung the bodies of King Saul and his son Jonathan on the city gates as trophies of war. Last week there were other human trophies of war in Bet She'an, as the townsfolk surrendered to a paroxysm of anger that symbolized the black and explosive mood of embattled, besieged Israel today...
...Beth Mugo, Kenyatta's niece and unofficial lady in waiting to his vivacious wife, Mama Ngina; another was a wealthy Greek resident of Kenya, George Criticos, a friend of the President's and Mama Ngi-na's partner in running the Kenya Trade Development Corp. Saul and Miller charge that Beth Mugo and Criticos encouraged other leading Kenyans, including Mama Ngina, to demand a bigger share of the take. The two Americans agreed to let the Kenyans' share go up to 72%. Still not satisfied, the Kenyans evidently decided to push the ruby discoverers...
Private Pockets. Last June Saul was abruptly declared a "prohibited immigrant" and given 2½ hours to leave the country. At first Miller went into hiding to keep the same thing from happening to him; after a month underground he left the country for London. After Saul's expulsion, Kenyatta, in an apparent reference to the ruby mine, publicly declared that no foreigner should be allowed to exploit Kenya's resources for his own private benefit. That is, no doubt, a valid general principle. But in this case it seems that the wealth of the mine is intended...
...Ambassador Anthony D. Marshall has protested the highhanded treatment of the two Americans. Meanwhile, Saul and Miller are suing in Kenyan courts for recovery of their ruby mine. Few, however, believe that the case will be decided in the Americans' favor. Kenya is sticking to its claim that Saul was expelled because of gemstone and ivory smuggling...
...public recompense for citizens who had been robbed. That practice did not flourish in the Anglo-Saxon system as governments came to adopt the view that crime is an offense against society; efforts to control it concentrated on punishing the criminal. Now that approach has begun to change. Says Saul Wexler, who handles compensation cases for the Illinois attorney general's office: "The innocent victim often suffers more than the assailant who is sent to prison...