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What a short memory Hussein has. Has he forgotten that in 1967 he attacked Israel despite Israel's pleas for Jordan to remain neutral? Had Hussein stayed out of the Six-Day War, the West Bank and part of Jerusalem would still be Jordan...
...religious wars, from the Roman conquest to the Crusades to the struggle between Arab and Jewish communities during the British mandate of 1919-48. Israel established its modern capital in the western part of the divided city in 1950, two years after the country's founding. During the Six-Day War of 1967, it seized from Jordan the ancient Arab eastern part of the city, which includes the principal religious shrines; four years ago, in a move that was extremely provocative to Arabs and Muslims, the Israelis declared the city reunified as the country's capital...
...six-day flight that should demonstrate anew the space shuttle's versatility, the orbiter Challenger will attempt to revivify Solar Max. If these celestial dramatics succeed, they will represent the space age's first retrieval and repair of an earth satellite. Challenger is scheduled to begin its historic fix-it flight from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Friday, April 6, at 8:59 a.m. E.S.T On this eleventh shuttle journey, Navy Captain Bob Crippen, 46, a veteran of two earlier missions, and his four-man, all-rookie crew will be breaking other new ground...
Officially divided in 1949 as a result of the Israeli-Jordanian armistice agreement, Jerusalem was reunited by the Israelis in the Six-Day War of 1967. The city's urban designers now see their task as the creation of a city so livable and so interwoven that no one will ever want or be able to divide it again. This is being accomplished cooperatively by Jews, Muslims and Christians, whose often volatile emotions are embedded in every stone...
...Israelis last week had an opportunity to express their opposition directly to one particular deal: the proposed sale by West Germany of tanks and other weaponry to Saudi Arabia. When West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl arrived in Israel for a six-day state visit, he was greeted with several demonstrations protesting not only the arms sale but also the presence of a German leader on Israeli soil...