Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time the U.S. has declared a chief of mission persona non grata since Robert Lansing handed the Austro-Hungarian ambassador his walking papers in 1915. The State Department also announced that U.S. Ambassador to Syria James Moose (one of only three U.S. ambassadors in the Arab world who can speak the language) would not return to his Damascus post at the end of his present home leave...
...made, implied strongly that they, like the recruits, came from Saudi Arabia. Also picked up in the rubble: two British naval cannon dated 1646. The U.S.-made grenades, along with the rebel prisoners' admission that they were trained in Saudi Arabia, may be used to counter Arab charges of "aggression" by Britain if the Arabs try to put the issue on the U.N.'s agenda...
...fact he existed at all-(his despite the fact that the Imam's "representative" in Cairo had busied himself with appeals for aid to both President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin. and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser saw to it that seven Arab nations issued a ringing denunciation of British "aggression...
...Moscow signed a $65-$100 million military-aid program with Syria (the most far gone of Arab states) under which Syria will get two submarines (the Egyptians have just received three) and six torpedo boats, along with Communist missions to show them how to steer. Egypt and Syria are now Russia's major arms depots in the Middle East...
...Imam of Oman at the eastern end of the Arabian peninsula, now face the possibility of difficulty from the Imam of Yemen on their Aden borders. In supplying arms to the Imam of Yemen, the Russians counted on their use for outside mischiefmaking: as the leading head-chopper among Arab potentates, the Imam has little domestic opposition. The Imam of Yemen is hardly abreast of the 4th century, but the Communists can nonetheless be expected to continue complaining that it is the U.S. that backs reactionary and feudal Arab rulers...