Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arab Chronicle
...overhead, Soviet-made jet bombers and fighters flashing good form in their first flypast (but showing gaps on the second pass because some were unable to keep in formation). The Russian arms were impressive, but conspicuously missing from the parade were last year's armed units from other Arab nations. It was a revealing indication of Nasser's diminished popularity with other Arab governments...
Communist Russia, crowed Nasser, came to the rescue. And when Egypt then rejected the Eisenhower Doctrine, the U.S. instituted "a vicious policy of invasion from within" the Arab world, sought "to isolate Egypt," and the battle became clear and open. And for those Arab leaders and "deviators" (a word drawn from the Marxist lexicon) who had lined up with the U.S., there will never be any place "in any Arab solidarity...
Mixed Lot. The people of Zanzibar and the nearby island of Pemba are a mixed lot. At the bottom are the 200,000 black Africans, "God's Poor." Then come the 45,000 better educated and land-rich Arabs, descendants of Arab conquerors who hailed originally from Muscat and Oman. The tiny European colony at last count numbered 296, mostly British officials. Most everybody on the island speaks Kiswahili and practices Mohammedanism (including the blacks). Overseeing everything is an aged (77) and beloved Sultan, His Highness Seyyid Sir Khalifa bin Harub, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.B.E. (whom God Preserve...
...despite Zanzibar's isolation and contentment, the cry for independence began to be heard. It was the Arabs who did the stirring. Last year Britain agreed that six of the twelve "unofficial" members of the Sultanate's 25-man legislative council should be elected by popular vote from an election roll open to all, regardless of race. The newly formed, Arab-led Nationalist Party was delighted, and its leader, Sheikh Ali Muhsin Barwani, 38, a well-educated Zanzibar Arab, boldly filed for office not in a "safe" constituency of Arabs but for Ngambo (literally, the Other Side...