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I
ndiana Jones, meet Graham old as the century perhaps, that
Hancock.
he had his wits about him, and
For thousands of years, the that he did not seem to be seeking
fate of the lost Ark of the information about me out of idle
Covenant, which contained the curiosity...
stone tablets of the Ten Com-
Now that the formalities were
mandments, has remained one over I got straight to the point.
of the world's great mysteries.
Gesturing in the direction of the
Now a former reporter for The building that loomed in shadowy
Economist says he knows exact- outline behind us, I said, "I have
ly where the ark is and who has heard of an Ethiopian tradition
it.
that the Ark of the Covenant is
The Sign and the Seal kept here...in this chapel. I have
(Touchstone) traces Graham also heard that you are the
Hancock's search for the Ark, a guardian of the Ark. Are these
journey that takes him from an- things true?"
cient archives in Europe to the
"They are true."
Middle East to Africa.
The Sign and the Seal also fea-
Mr. Hancock's work, which tures a number of photographs,
reads like a novel, begins in including one of the sanctuary
Ethiopia. He is meeting with an where the author believes the
unnamed monk, a man who is Ark is held.
"stooped and leaning on a prayer
ith friends like the Unit-
stick," and who wants to know
ed States and Great
why the journalist is there and
Britain, do the Jews
what he wants.
need enemies?
I answered each of these ques-
In The Secret War Against
tions fully, squinting through the the Jews (St. Martin's Press),
gloom as I talked, trying to make John Loftus and Mark Aarons
out the details of my inquisitor's charge that the most powerful
face. Milky cataracts veiled his Western nations have consis-
small sunken eyes and deep lines tently worked against Israel,
furrowed his black skin. He was even while pretending to vigor-
bearded and probably toothless ously support the state.
— for although his voice was res-
The authors, who say they in-
onant it was also oddly slurred. terviewed more than 500 intelli-
All I could be sure of, however, gence officers, have divided their
was that he was an old man, as book into three sections.
The first, "The
Age of Bigotry," be-
gins with World
War I and contin-
ues to the end of
World War II. It fo-
cuses on the anti-
Semitism of some
of the first Western
spies.
In "The Age of
Greed," Mr. Loftus
and Mr. Aarons re-
veal American sup-
port for the Arabs
throughout the
early years of the
State of Israel,
tracing the "transi-
tion from crude
bigotry to a sophis-
ticated form of in-
sider trading."
The final sec-
tion, "The Age of
Stupidity," concen-
trates on modern
anti-Israel behav-
ior, including the
authors' charges
Is the Ark somewhere in Ethiopia?
that the Reagan
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administration set up Israel to be
the fall guy in the Iran-Contra
scandal, even as the U.S. gov-
ernment was making deals with
PLO terrorists.
Among the authors' allega-
tions:
* Since 1944, American and
British intelligence have sanc-
tioned illegal wiretaps of Jewish
citizens in both countries.
* Leading Republican Nation-
al Committee officials, including
former President George Bush,
for decades have had close rela-
tions with former Nazis who were
used to secure the "ethnic vote"
in support of Nixon, Reagan and
Bush.
* Former Israeli Prime Minis-
ter David Ben-Gurion had to
blackmail American and Russ-
ian leaders to guarantee the U.N.
votes needed to establish the
State of Israel.
aul Joseph was the third
son of a modest, close-knit,
deeply religious family. As
a young boy he often was
sickly, and suffered an almost-fa-
tal bout with pneumonia. Ac-
quaintances described him as
aloof. A gift from his godmother
— a book of fairy tales — began
his interest in reading; he grew
to be an outstanding student in
every subject.
p
Goebbel's diaries
became available
only recently.
As an adult, Paul Joseph was
a monster. He was shrewd and
ambitious, a man absolutely and
completely dedicated to the mur-
der of the Jews.
Goebbels (Harvest Books), by
Ralf Georg Reuth, is the story of
the Nazi leader based on eyewit-
ness accounts, Goebbels' own let-
ters and diaries, and archival
material, some of which had been
held by the East Germans and
Russians and became available
only recently.
Mr. Reuth, correspondent for
the Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung, describes Goebbels' strict
childhood, his many love affairs,
his career as Reich minister of
popular enlightenment and pro-
paganda, and his family life and
death. (As his wife, Magda, poi-
soned the couple's six young chil-