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...first of these scenes are quite funny--especially in Lisbon just before the earthquake where junkmen, winesellers, and Arab conjurers litter the stage. A bear frolics--chased by his bearman--and the wild infant Casmira screams, "The earth will quake and the ground will shake," to which the Very, Very Old Inquisitor grunts toward the Very Old Inquisitor, "The danger has passed." Just then the stage begins to rumble. As the play wears on, however, these scenes become repetitions and progressively less funny. Toward the end, Candide wearily remarks, "You cannot live by bed alone...
...Western to break off Jordan's alliance with Britain in favor of a tie with Egypt-a course advocated by veteran Amman Politico Suleiman Nabulsi, who many Jordanians believe will be their next Premier. Says Nabulsi: "We have no reservations about Nasser. He is the symbol of the Arab awakening...
Harrow-educated King Hussein, Arab nationalist though he is, would almost certainly fight any move to abrogate the Anglo-Jordan Treaty. His reasons:1) the Jordanian government could not function without the $25 million annual subsidy which it gets from Britain, and there is little likelihood that Egypt or Saudi Arabia would make up the difference; 2) the fact that Britain is treaty-bound to come to Jordan's defense provides greater protection against an all-out Israeli attack than any agreement Jordan might make with the Arab states...
...ceasefire at midnight, the Israelis rejected it because, as a spokesman admitted later, "we weren't through yet." At that time, Israeli forces sent to block off reinforcements ran into a tough fight five miles east on the Samaritan road. For their first big thrust since 1949, the Arab Legion (rechristened the Jordanian army since King Hussein threw out Glubb...
...mere captain, neighboring little Lebanon was making money hand over fist as the Middle Eastern go-between for Western entrepreneurs. It avoided violent nationalism, and Western businesses turned to it as to an oasis for their Middle Eastern headquarters, transforming .the tiny, tidy state into the Switzerland of the Arab world...