THE MIDDLE EAST: Bloody Frontier

The saw-toothed border that runs from the Sea of Galilee southward to the Dead Sea, separating Israel from Jordan, is perhaps the most troubled border in the world. Each day, with brutal monotony, half a dozen people die there.

Since the Palestine "armistice" of April 3, 1949, the almost ritualistic routine of daily raiding and killing has provided full-time work for peacemakers of the U.N.'s Mixed Armistice Commission. Refugee Arabs raid across the border to pluck a few oranges from groves that had been taken from them, or to liberate a few cattle or...

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