Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Maurice Schwartz, 69, founder, director and leading actor of New York's Yiddish Art Theater, which from 1919 to 1950 produced about 150 plays-from Shakespeare to Sholom Aleichem-and such alumni as Paul Muni and Stella Adler; of a heart attack; in Petah Tikva, Israel...
...patient diplomatic efforts to keep lids on a dozen potential volcanoes in the Arab world, the U.S. has to walk with care along the mountainous hatreds between the Arab nations and Israel. If U.S. diplomacy is offended in principle by the fact that Egypt's Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser bars the Suez Canal to all Israeli shipping and blacklists all ships that traffic in Israeli ports, in private it thinks first about all those Arab volcanoes spouting at the same time. Last week the State Department found the whole delicately balanced U.S. position in the Middle East jeopardized...
...Senate, an anti-Arab amendment to the $4,175,000,000 foreign aid bill-already passed by the House-made diplomats shudder. Written by Illinois' liberal, pro-Israel Democrat Paul Douglas and endorsed by a gaggle of well-meaning Eastern Senators, the amendment would give President Eisenhower the power, but not the obligation, to withhold all mutual security funds from the United Arab Republic until the Suez Canal would again be open to Israeli shipping. The amendment posed no real threat to mutual security funds or to peace in the Middle East, but it was a sharp needle...
...seafarers. But after Meany's able legal counsel, Arthur Goldberg, discussed the situation for two days with Dillon and Mitchell, Meany was persuaded to relent. The State Department agreed to investigate the complaints of the Seafarers Union and to "do what it can" to end the anti-Israel blockade. Picketing of the Cleopatra ended and the Arab counter-boycott was called off. Truce, if not outright peace, returned to the troubled waterfronts of the world...
...another striking difference was evident. Recently arrived Yemenites who died of TB, or were killed in accidents amid the unfamiliar vehicular traffic, proved on post-mortem examination to have virtually no atherosclerotic heart disease. Yet this was the greatest killer among the Ashkenazim, Jews who had migrated to Israel from middle and northern Europe...