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★ ★ YOUTH'SSENTENCEAFFIRMEDLITTLE ROCK, Ark, ® -Athree-year prison sentence against a teen-age boy for a 10-cent robbery was affirmed yesterday by the Arkansas Supreme Court.William Young Radcliff of Little Rock, who was 17 when the robbery occurred lastyear, had appealed his conviction from Pulaski County Circuit Court “ft if? immaterial of what value the thing taken is,” the high court said. “A penny as well as a pound thus forcibly extorted makes it robbery.” Radcliff allegedly took the dime at gunpoint from another youth after a high school football game.Jordanian City Is Under ThreatCORPUS CHRIST! TIMES, Tues., Sept. 22, 1970 5-ABy GEORGE WELLEll© Chltas Dolly N«wsGray, forbidding Irbid, the Jordanian city overlooking the Jordan River Valley, captured by Syrians disguised as Palestinian guerrillas, may become the target of an Israeli assault within days or even hours, according to observers.Today’s cabinet meeting in Israeli, the first since Mrs. Golda Meir’s return from the United States, is expected to weigh the important decision.“My failure .to take Irbid was the big error of the Six-Day War,” Minister of War Moshe Dayan was quoted as saying several -months ago by a French correspondent.The Israelis have long waited for the political situation that would enable them to make a claim to the windy town of old black basalt buildings and refugee shacks. As long as it belonged to Jordan, they didn’t want to cross the river.Irbid is only 15 miles from the Jordan Valley. It has repeatedly been shelled and bombed by Israeli artillery and aircraft.Irbid dominates the northwest corner of Jordan, • the •only point from which Jordan’s artillery has been able to shell villages in Israel proper, as distinguished from the occupied area.Irbid is also the key to holding the southern bank of the clear, abundant river Yar-mouk, main feeder of the Jordan. Israel seized the northern bank, the Golan Heights, inthe six-day war after Jordan and the U.A.R. had yielded.A virtual bid to Dayan to correct his “error” emerged from the broadcast by retired Maj. Gen. Haim Herzog in his evening strategy talk yesterday to the Israelis. Herzog said: “Borders are sacred but if they don’t exist for the Syrians they don't exist at all in the area ... I don’t think that Israel can sit back and view with equanimity a radical change in the borders in this area . . . remember we now have the Syrian army in Irbid and the heights of Irbid.They haven’t come down into the val'ey yet. But if they did it would be very serious for our military ... the Syrians might not have moved withoutSit-In StagedRAWALPINDI, Pakistan (ft — About 50 Palestinian and Jordanian students staged a sit-in in the garden of the Jordanian Embassy in Islambad today. Police carrying rifles with bayonets, stood guard, but the demonstration was peaceful.Russian acquiescence if notconnivance.”The Israelis began trying to take this valley of the Yar-mottk almost immediately after the 1949 peace agreement at Rhodes. In their first air attack they bombed Al-Ham-ma, a tourist spa on the Syrian side of the coveted river.Israel wants the Yarmonk River because by diverting its flow northward into the -Sea of Galilee, rather than allowing it to flow as at present into the Jordan, Israel would gain virtual total control of the Jordan Valley water system.CORPUS CHRISTI'S NEW DEPARTMENT STORESearch Pushed for CrewMIAMI — Despite a fruitless two-day search covering 1,000 miles of the Caribbean, the Coast Guard said it would resume an aerial lookout to* dav for 24 crewmen who re-portedly abandoned a burning freighter southeast of Kingston. Jamaica.“Everything has been negative so far. There haven’t been sightings of debris oranvfires, let alone survivors. a Coast Guard spokesman said yesterday.A Coast Guard plane from Guantanamo Bay Naval Stalls! THE MALI PADRE-STAPLEStion in Cuba, another fron Miami, and the Coast Guard cutter Morganthau out of New York joined the U.S. merchant ship Caledonia yesterday in searching for the freighter and its crew.Distress calls from the freighter Sunday were monitored by ham radio operators in the United States and South America, the Coast Guard said.The vessel was reported ferrying coal to Panama. The name given in the distress calls was the MV Gold Coast.Annual Autumn
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Tue, Sep 22, 1970
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