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Show ii'ii .yin 0 'n" "i "WH 'fh 20 A Th Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday July 18, 1963 Great British Train Gang Can Any Jail Hold Em? 9 Arabs Unity Still Vow Israel Doom Fades-b- ut LONDON (AP) It was on April 16 last year that one of the Great Train robbers, jailed for 30 years, turned to his wife in court and whispered: Dont worry darling; w will all be out in five years. He could be right. Charles Wilson, one of 12 men jailed for the $7,280,000 train robbery, served only 118 days of his sentence before he was sprung from Birminghams maximum Winson security Green Prison. He hasnt been seen since. wfiog Next The same fantastic attention to detail and timing went into the escape from Londons Wandsworth Prison July 8 of another tram robber, Ronald Arthur Biggs. The question now is who next? The 10 remaining members of the tram robbery gang are held in various prisons throughout Britain. Special watch is kept on them. Extra precautions are taken. But most British prisons are antiquated, - overcrowded - and understaffed. Wilson and Biggs have shown just how easy it is to get out of them. Only $840,000 of the vast train robbery loot was ever recovered There seems little doubt that part of whats left is being used to get the other gang members freed. Israel, the Jewish state they were vowing then as always to By Webb McKinley Associated Press Writer - wipe out. The Arab sights were narrowed most particularly of all on the Israeli irrigation project which eventually will take each year 320 million cubic meters of One BEIRUT, LEBANON sunny Sunday in the restless month of June, officials high and low in the Middle East talked of Arab unity, the Arab dream. No one said a word against it. On the same day, these events took place and these charges were made: The Arab Republicans in the Yemen, backed by 50,000 Egyptian troops, fought another battle with the Arab Royalists, backed by Saudi Arabia. The Cairo press cried victory! Jordan River water from Lake Tiberias Steps to War In May, 1964, the Arabs took a further step by deciding to form a Palestinian organization and army to fight Israel. Last September, at a second summit in Alexandria, the kings and presidents created the Palestine Liberation and Organization Iraq Clashes pledged a secret sum, believed Government troops in the to be about 28 million dollars, to north of Iraq probed a little support it and its military wing deeper into Kurdish positions, That was only nine months seeking to end a guerrilla war. ago. What happened between "Oil rich Kuwait accused sociSeptember and June to cause alist Syria of blackmail. such disarray? d newspapers print-eFirst, things were not as an alleged British plan to inbrotherly (the Arabs actually vade Lebanon. Lebanese nation- use the word in this alists claimed this was psy- sense) as theysisterly seemed The chological, war fare.and, told, a Baath Socialist government" of spokesman for PresidentGamal Syria was lonesome and unhapAbdel Nasser of Egypt' to shut py, jealous and fearful of Nas- up sers Arab leadership, and beset Newspapers and the radio in by plots. Damascus boasted that Syria v Buildup in Yemen was the only Arab country to reto U.S. two and hang spies Second, Westerners viewed fuse U S. aid. Iraq said Syria and still view with skepticism was aiding with Israel against between real accord Prince any Nasser. Syria said Kuwait Was siding with Israel against the Feisal who had replaced his Arabs. brother, King Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz, as ruler of Saudi Arabia Year of Decision and the revolutionary Nasser. In this condition sweltered the Instead of withdrawing his Arab Middle East in the early troops from Yemen, Nasser grasummer of 1965, the year Nas- dually increased them. ser has called the one of deciWork to divert the Jordan trision in the Arab struggle with butaries went ahead, but hesiIsrael. tantly. Lebanon had no taste for Asioclated Pres. Photo Less than 18 months after the it and would not allow other One central aim, on of to alms. Arabian their countries exin agreement unify attempts against and an kings, Arab troops to be stationed on presidents traordinary Arab summit meet- its soil to defend its end of the Israel have been sputtering, mainly for lack however, is to control water in Jordan River. ing in Cairo, had signed a doc- project. Syria started digging a ument ending all disputes, unity tunnel to divert the remained only a dream. The Bamas River, only 500 yards -- Middle East was more than dis- from the Israeli border. united. It was almost disjointed. A unified Arab command was The January, 1964, summit formed, and the Arab states conference marked a great mo- pledged to contribute 15,000 men Hand-blow- n ment in the historical and very as a nucleus for the force; but coreal Arab urge to create a the men for it did not materialioperative, neutral and eventu ze. ally unified Arab world. Tensions Erupt Unity Movement All this was just beneath the Parfait Glasses, ele- Many Arab leaders there had surface, but in March and April gantly shaped with fn the past attacked each other the tensions blew and bands of silver at even deep and had into world headlines. viciously, Nasser, reg. 5.99 gallon to who probably had known about rimming the top and fames, perhaps, arranged foot Set of 8, reg. 8.98, have something ill befall another it for a long time, suddenly exof those present. But on Jan. 17, ploded with wrath against West they pledged to clear the Arab Germany for secretly supplying atmosphere, stop all campaigns arms to Israel. Amidst a great of information organs, and so- hullabaloo, he sought to lead the GALLON lidify relations among the sister Arab states into breaking relaArab states as a guarantee for tions with West Germany if the collective and constructive co- Germans established diplomatic leer and Liner, silver relations with Isreal. e operation. . . banded crysTheir aim was unity, and The first cracks appeared in tal glass icer and liner most specifically unity against Arab solidarity. Libya, Tunisia to match parfaits. Set and Morocco would not go -- of 4, reg 5 98, along. Several other states were by this privately dismayed headlong way of doing things, although they regretfully made the formal break. With all this, when the Arab FOURTH FLOOR CHINA premiers met again in Cairo late in May, they had a listless, Mad and phone orders disarrayed sort of gathering. filled sent freight colThey bickered, announced pub-- , lect beyond delivery licly they had agreed, and went area (718). home. 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