Word: palestinian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Johns Hopkins' William Foxwell Albright, 67, expert in Palestinian archaeology. Big (6 ft.), bald Sand-Sifter Albright began to explore Palestine in the days when such explorations consisted chiefly of dismounting from one's camel and commencing to dig. A scholar instead of a treasure hunter, he painstakingly collected and fitted together pottery fragments scorned by some earlier diggers, succeeded in bringing a large measure of order to the history of Palestine in the 3,000 years before Christ. Among his qualifications for archaeology: great physical durability and a command of some 25 languages, including enough...
...Jordan will both keep their crowns and the federal Parliament and Cabinet, controlling foreign and defense policies, will meet alternately in Baghdad and Amman. Still to be worked out: whether Iraq, which has plenty of farm land to reclaim, will be able to absorb many of the 500,000 Palestinian refugees who have made Jordanian politics so volatile. Premier Nuri appears as likely to dominate the new Federation Cabinet as the 14 Cabinets he has bossed in more than 25 years as Iraq's strongman...
Foreign Minister Charles Malik sent a note to Cairo charging "massive interference" by Syrian and Palestinian infiltrators, including some 30 fedayeen raiders caught coasting up to Lebanon in small boats from the Gaza Strip. As the riots raged on, the U.S. Sixth Fleet stood into the eastern Mediterranean, a U.S. cargo ship fetched 14 Americans unscathed from battered Tripoli, and U.S. Air Force transports roared into Beirut with tear gas and small-arms ammunition. "We are determined to help this government maintain internal security," said U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock...
Rumor getting serious attention currently in the Middle East: that Gamal Abdel Nasser, driving for his Arab union, will next arrange for the Egyptian-run Gaza Strip to announce its independence as a nation. The strip's 300.000 Palestinians, mostly refugees from Israeli-held territory, would then vote themselves into his United Arab Republic. Such a "state" might be expected to attract the disruptive loyalty of the more than 500,000 other Palestinian refugees living in Jordan. Already the newly created Gaza local government council calls itself the Palestine Legislative Assembly, and the map of "Arab Palestine" behind...
...federation will have integrated armed forces and a unified diplomatic service (though Iraq and Jordan will keep their separate seats in the United Nations). There will be the right of free movement between the two countries for all citizens (including Jordan's jobless Palestinian refugees). Iraq, which has already begun supplying oil and mutton...