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Special Issue on the Jordan Crisis. Offered is issue No. 64 of "Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter" (September-October 1970) published by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees at the UNESCO Building in Beirut, Lebanon. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 28 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Special Issue on the Jordan Crisis, with cover photo of a "Refugee in Wahdat after the fighting ended." Contents include: Commissioner-General [Laurence Michelmore] Reports: 30 September ("Every effort is now being made, and with the greatest urgency, to restore UNRWA services to the Palestine refugees in Jordan"); The Schools: Shelters, Schools and Other Buildings Badly Damaged; The Homes: Efforts Concentrated on Resumption of Services; The People; Note by the Secretary-General; Commissioner-General Reports: 6 November ("The Commissioner-General reports with regret that eleven local staff members of UNRWA were killed in the fighting which took place in Jordan east of the Jordan River in the last half of September"); UNRWA in East Jordan 1970 (with details on the Number of Refugees; 250,000 Other Displaced Persons; Budget; Shelter; Food Rations; Health; Education); Conflict in Jordan Highlights Importance of UNRWA (with map showing towns, established camps, emergency camps, occupied territory, armistice line 1948, international frontier and topics Fast Return of Vital UNRWA Services; Usual Health Problems Aggravated; One Third of School Pupils Without Classrooms; International Relief; Refugees Rebuilding); two-page photospread ("The hardest hit area was Wahdat, also known as New Amman Camp - As the survivors emerged after the ceasefire, and those who had left started streaming back, formidable problems of water, food and hygiene arose, which UNRWA was able to help solve"); Digging Out (with topics Economic Hardship; Financial Threat to UNRWA); Joint Appeal by Assembly President [Edvard Hambro of Norway] and Secretary-General [U Thant] for Humanitarian Aid to Jordan; U Thant Alerts U.N. Member States to UNRWA's Financial Crisis (with text of letter sent by U Thant to UN Member States on 17 August 1970); The Financial Statement of UNRWA as of July 1970 - Statement by the Commissioner-General; two-page UNRWA's Log of Recovery (by date). Seller Inventory # 008214
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