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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are now nearly 20,000 fedayeen in Jordan v. scant hundred or so before the war-and their ranks are swelling daily. Whereas all guerrilla operations used to be controlled by the disreputable (and now discredited) Palestine Liberation Army, there are at least halt dozen independent fedayeen organizations, most of them less interested in playing Arab politics (as was the P.L.A.) than in fielding effective guerrillas. The largest, and to all appearances the most dynamic, of them all is Asita (thunderstorm), the paramilitary arm of a broader political group named El Fatah, whose commandos call themselves storm troopers...
...bite on an average black-and-white TV set increased by $8, to $50, pushed up the total purchase tag to just above $200. The government's cut on a $4,860 diamond bracelet is now $1,620 v. $1,080 in pre-Jenkins times; not surprisingly, the jewelers passed the increases along to the customers. The new $1,270 tag on British Motors' Austin Mini reflects a $48 rise in the old $233 purchase tax. Not forgetting the rich, Jenkins also imposed a new one-year levy on investment income, creating a situation in which...
...seven years the royal palace in Oslo had been without a woman-ever since King Olav V's youngest daughter, Astrid, married a commoner. But now the King and Crown Prince Harold, 31, will no longer live in lonely masculine splendor. The King has consented to Harald's marriage to Sonja Har-aldsen, 30, the striking blonde daughter of an Oslo clothing-store manager whom Harald courted for ten years. Royalists were soon aflutter over the fact that Sonja, a commoner, will receive queenly rights when Harald ascends the throne. That issue hardly concerned the Prince...
Some 1,200 employees of the Plaza Athénée, George V and La Trémoille luxury hotels marched last week past venerable haute couture and perfume houses along Paris' Avenue Montaigne. "We demand our heritage of great hotels," read one banner. A few hotel guests joined the protest of their chambermaids, valets, busboys and chefs. "Our hotels are among the most prestigious in the world," explained Monsieur Bougenaux, head concierge of Plaza Athenee. Now, he fears, all this is going to change...
...blocks away, the George V, though subtly different, is no less desirable. There, hushed calm is replaced by a livelier atmosphere. Its 370 rooms, served by 510 employees, include 52 small apartments with kitchenettes for long-term guests. The busy George V crowd is made up mostly of top executives and the film set-nearly half of them Americans-willing to pay up to $100 a night for a suite...