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...Allah, save Jerusalem." Assembled outside Mecca last week for the beginning of the annual hajj (pilgrimage), 1.6 million Muslims prayed in fervent unison for the "liberation" of East Jerusalem, which was occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. A few days earlier, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin had given a rousing speech at an election rally in Jerusalem for local candidates of his Likud Party. He declared that a united Jerusalem was as much the capital of Israel as Washington was the capital of the U.S. "The only difference is that Washington has been a capital for 200 years...
...Intercontinental deal should further Pan Am's hope of resuming service to China, which it suspended in the early '40s. For the past year, the airline has been running a heavily booked six-day China tour (total cost: about $1,145 double occupancy), but it has had to fly its customers to Tokyo or Hong Kong for transfer to Chinese planes or ground transportation. That may not always be necessary. Earlier this year, Pan Am gave up its routes to both Moscow and Taiwan. Though the company denies it, those moves look as if they might have been aimed...
...centuries before the Israelis captured the Sinai during the Six-Day War of 1967, the 24,000-sq.-mi., arrowhead-shaped peninsula (twice the size of Belgium) was pretty much a forgotten wasteland. As late as 1967, its population was only about 50,000, including 10,000 Bedouins and perhaps 40,000 Palestinians and Egyptians who lived in the town of El Arish near the Israeli border. The Egyptians, who have had a somewhat vaguely defined sovereignty over the area since 1906, developed some oilfields in the Sinai, but for the most part they preferred to preserve...
Chafin said it was disturbing that the tampering could have occurred for a six-day period in a room which is accessible only to Mather residents. He added the police have not ruled out the possibility that the letters were tampered with on only one day...
...course, halfback Wayne Moore has been lost for the year with the broken ankle he sustained late in the UMass game. Wearing a cast two-thirds of the way up his right thigh, Moore was released from Stillman Infirmary yesterday after a six-day stint there...