Word: scopus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Palestine Truce Supervision Organization, had just spread a luncheon napkin across his knees when the walkie-talkie telephone began to grunt and gasp. An aide picked it up and took the message: Israelis and Jordanians were shooting at each other in the demilitarized zone on Mount Scopus behind the Mount of Olives...
...Lieut. Colonel George Flint, Canadian chairman of the Israeli-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission, to go to the spot, bring about a cease-fire and arrange for the evacuation of the wounded. Colonel Flint, a tough, wiry Korean war veteran, had been badly wounded by an exploding mine on Mount Scopus two years before. He set forth immediately for the Arab village of Issawiya, on the Jordanian sector of Mount Scopus. Checking fast, he learned that four members of an Israeli police patrol lay wounded at the edge of the Israeli zone where they had been hit in the first shooting...
JERUSALEM, Dec. 4--Dag Hammarskjold settled the Israeli-Jordan dispute over convoys to Mt. Scopus today, and Israel will resume the dispatch of supplies to the isolated ridge tomorrow...
Early in the week Jordanian soldiers, roused by Israeli claims to parts of Mt. Scopus, a hill commanding Jerusalem, occupied a house in the disputed zone. When
...desperate exile, it intends to keep right on expanding. This year it will have the largest enrollment (3,000 students) in its history, and it has recently opened a full-fledged medical school. Its goal for 1954: 4,000 students -with or without the silent grey bastions of Mount Scopus...