- Title: ISRAEL: JERUSALEM: ONLY PARTIAL SUCCESS FOR STRIKE CALL BY EX-MAYOR
- Date: 23rd February 1969
- Summary: 1. SV ARAB BUSES PAST CAMERA, PAN TO CLOSED STORES IN B/G 0.11 2. SV PEDESTRIANS PAST CLOSED STORES 0.14 3. SV BUSINESS SIGNS PAN TO CLOSED STORES AND STREET VENDOR 0.27 4. GV CLOSED STORES, ARAB STREET ORDERLY WORKS IN F/G. 0.32 5. CU PAN..TWO BUSINESS SIGNS 0.36 6. GV TRAVEL SHOT..PAST CLOSED STORES 0.46 7. GV CLOSED STORES PAN TO ARAB STORE OPEN FOR BUSINESS 0.52 8. GV TRAFFIC; PAN TO ARAB SHOPKEEPER OUTSIDE HIS OPEN STORE 1.00 9. MV ARAB OUTSIDE OPEN STORE 1.10 10. SV ANOTHER ARAB OUTSIDE HIS OPEN STORE 1.05 11. SV ANOTHER ARAB SITTING OUTSIDE HIS STORE 1.08 12. SV PAN..POLICE CAR PATROLLING 1.13 13. SV ARAB BUS PAST OPEN STORE 1.21 Initials NAC/VS/JF/ES Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 10th March 1969 13:00
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- Location: JERUSALEM
- Country: Israel
- Reuters ID: LVAEFQ5YELKRVBLFHE5ZM478UNUJ
- Story Text: LIFE APPEARED ALMOST NORMAL YESTERDAY (SATURDAY) IN THE ARAB SECTION OF JERUSALEM IN SPITE OF A LONG-STANDING CALL BY THE EX-MAYOR OF JERUSALEM, RUHI EL-KATIB, FOR A GENERAL STRIKE AGAINST ISRAEL'S MOVES TO UNITE THE TWO SECTORS OF THE CITY.
SOME ARAB SHOPS WERE CLOSED BUT MOST WERE OPEN, AND SCHOOL CHILDREN ATTENDED CLASSES. THERE WERE MORE POLICE PATROLS THAN USUAL, BUT THIS IS ATTRIBUTED TO TIGHTER SECURITY FOLLOWING FRIDAY'S EXPLOSION AT A SUPERMARKET IN THE JEWISH SECTOR.
THE SITUATION WAS DIFFERENT HOWEVER, IN THE TOWN OF NABLUS, NOT FAR FROM JERUSALEM, ON THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK. THERE SHOPS WERE CLOSED, CHILDREN KEPT AWAY FROM SCHOOL AND DEMONSTRATIONS HELD IN PRAISE OF PRESIDENT NASSER HELD.
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