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Welcome to Lord Mayor Briscoe in his high office in the capital city of Catholic Ireland [July 9]. While nobody expects Jews to reciprocate by selecting a Roman Catholic lord mayor in Jerusalem, it would, however, be good news if Israelis-in response to the "wonderful gesture"-would stop campaigning against the handful of Christian missionaries in their midst. High time that in religious controversies all parties shall confine themselves to debating-and refrain from baiting...
...artistic techniques of both Italy and northern Europe. His early teacher in Leiden had studied in Italy, there learned Caravaggio's trick of sharply contrasting light and shadow, to make light itself the most dramatic element in the picture. Rembrandt's painting, Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, done when the artist was only 24, already shows both Rembrandt's love of Biblical subjects and the virtuoso control of light that gives his oils the intensity of molten gold...
Last week the secret of the copper scrolls came out. Their subject, announced the French, British and U.S. scholars who have been working on them in the Jordanian section of Jerusalem, was not spiritual at all. They were clues to buried treasure-and on a Fort Knox scale. Two hundred tons of gold and silver-were mentioned as well as a considerable cache of incense in about 60 separate hoards scattered over a 50-mile-long area from Hebron to Mount Gerizim, near Nablus...
Followed by such grateful and admiring words from those he had just pried from each other's throats, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold this week flew back to New York from his month-long peacemaking mission to the Middle East. From Jerusalem he dispatched an advance report to the Security Council that Israel and the four neighboring Arab states had all promised to observe a ceasefire along their borders, and had agreed not to retaliate even if provoked...
...Jordan, insisted that they would not agree to a cease-fire unless Israel first promised not to go through with its announced plan for drawing irrigation water from the Jordan River. Israel would make no such pledge. Stymied for days, Hammarskjold finally found a way through. Doubling back to Jerusalem, he made the point to Prime Minister Ben-Gurion: while tapping the Jordan would not be a violation of the armistice, it would flout a 1953 Security Council resolution calling on Israel to cease water diversion. He returned to the Syrians and got them to agree to respect the cease...