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Most immediate threat to the truce is Israel's projected plan to start diverting Jordanian waters from the Sea of Galilee next year. Arabs have long threatened to fight the minute Israel opens the taps. On the other hand, Israel has threatened to march into Jordan if King Hussein succumbs to a Nasser takeover. Asked how long the U.N. might have to stay, a veteran U.N. observer shrugged and said: "Fifteen more years-or 50."
* Von Horn's next assignment: to head a new 200-man U.N. peace-keeping force in Yemen, designed to get Egypt and Saudi Arabia out of the Yemeni civil war. No sooner had Secretary-General U Thant announced the project than the Soviet Union called for a Security Council meeting this week, in an evident attempt to bring the Yemeni mission within range of the Russian veto.