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...somewhat unrealistic, considering the constant pining of the refugees for their homeland. In fact, one trouble is the profoundly emotional and irrational nature of many of the Arab demands and expectations?almost an inability to recognize the hard facts of life. The Arabs have seen Israel prosper on soil from which they barely scratched a living when they had it; Israel's success is not only a blow to their pride but a constant rebuke to the dismal poverty in which most of the Arab world lives...
...first the famed Winter War of 1939-40, in which it stalemated the invading Russians; then in 1941, when it fought the Russians again as a reluctant German ally; then again in 1944, when, having sued for peace with the Allies, it had to drive the Germans from its soil in a gory cleanup operation that took seven months...
Blue-Green Earth. In Washington, NASA showed the first moon movies, pieced together from still pictures shot by Surveyor during its first lunar day. One film strip showed the spacecraft's claw digging a small trench in the soil. Another, taken at sunset, followed the edge of lunar night as it swallowed Surveyor's lengthening shadow and moved on across the crater until only a few high clumps of rocklike material remained lighted against a black...
...United Nations peace-keeping force whose only assignment has been to keep the two hostile nations from each other's throats. Last week Gamal Abdel Nasser ordered the U.N. troops to withdraw-"for their own protection"-not only from the border but from Egyptian soil entirely. Into their positions moved an Egyptian force estimated at 60,000 men, including one armored and four infantry divisions. It was the first time in ten years that Egyptian and Israeli troops had been in each other's gun sights, and it came at a time when the Arab-Israeli conflict, charged...
...Enam, the second tale, develops much the same theme. Gemulah, the wife of Gabriel Gamzu, has been transplanted from an ancient land to modern Israel, and begins to wither like a flower torn from the soil. When the moon is full, she speaks in a tongue long dead and sings songs of unearthly beauty-all of this recorded by an unreal, evanescent figure named Ginath...