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Viet Cong Chaos. The coming election is also stirring the Viet Cong to new activity. In the past few days, the Saigon police have rounded up 30 V.C. suspects, including the chief terrorist in the Saigon area, a man who received his demolition training in North Viet Nam. After "intensive questioning," the V.C. admitted that they were under orders to create havoc in the pre-election period by setting off mines at points carefully chosen to injure the maximum number of women and children...
...shutters of shops belonging to striking Arabs, arrested two prominent Jordanians as the ringleaders and summarily sentenced them to three months in prison. Elsewhere too, the Israelis are responding with measured toughness to any hint of trouble. In Bethlehem, 40 suspected members of El Fatah, the. Syrian-trained terrorist organization, were arrested as they met in a cafe. And throughout the new terri tories, Israeli soldiers continued their house-to-house search for arms. If so much as a pistol is found under a mattress, the soldiers clear out the inhabitants and coolly dynamite the offending house to smithereens...
Vietnamese army has built eleven new forts in which local volunteers now stand guard against terrorist attack. Forty-five new bridges span tributaries along the canal bank. Abuilding in many hamlets are new marketplaces, schools, dispensaries and maternity clinics. A thin trickle of shipping has started, and shipwrights in a number of villages have begun the construction of new 50-and 100-ton barges, confident that the canal will soon be open for full-scale business...
...describe Jordan as one of Israel's "least aggressive neighbors." I was not aware that there were degrees of aggression, some worthy of condemnation, others to be countenanced due to their mildness. Even if this were true, Jordan, jumping-off place for the terrorist Palestine Liberation Front, is far from being a mild aggressor...
...Terrorist Raids. The combination of fading zeal and falling economy?although neither has yet reached alarming proportions?was bound to produce discontent. It also produced the beginnings of disillusionment. Last year, 11,000 Jews pulled up stakes and moved away from Israel?almost as many as came into the country. Some of them were dispirited by the steadily increasing level of terrorist raids across Israel's borders. A disturbingly high proportion of the departing emigrants was the professional men, managers and technicians who had engineered the Israeli economic miracle. In some cases, they returned to the countries of their birth...