Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major Henry, an old hand at killing rebels, answers: "You are right, 100% right-in theory. But in practice you are going to discover you will have to choose. If you consider that every Arab is innocent until proved guilty, let me tell you you will get your men killed, the fellagha will be kings and you will be transferred, because the parents of soldiers don't like them to be killed and will write to their Deputies that you are a butcher. To raise problems of conscience and to treat possible killers as presumed innocents is a luxury...
...says much for the French sense of moral probity that nowhere in the controversy over Algeria has it been seriously suggested that excesses committed by French army officers have been justified by the numerous atrocities committed by Arabs. Just how provocative Arab behavior can be is illustrated in the case of Captain Reneé Moureau...
...Arab state which has been most faithfully in Nasser's corner, and has gone perhaps even further than Egypt to accept Russian help and direction, is Syria. For about a year 31-year-old Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, Nasser-admiring chief of Syria's military intelligence service, has been next thing to king of the beasts in the Syrian political jungle. Last week, angered by his increasing inroads on their hunting preserves, and perhaps even a little disturbed by Russian influence, some of the older inhabitants of the jungle tried to run Serraj...
Their decision to subdue Serraj dates from the Cairo conference of Arab leaders when Arabia's King Saud, fresh from his U.S. visit, pointedly lectured Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly on the importance of fighting Communist infiltration. Emboldened by Saud's advice, portly, opportunistic Shukri el Kuwatly went back to Damascus, called in Chief of Staff Tewfiq Nizam el Din, and drew up orders transferring some 120 pro-Serraj army officers to out-of-the-way posts. For Serraj himself, Kuwatly and Nizam el Din chose an ironically suitable post: Syrian representative to the joint Arab...
...Mediterranean tanker ports. Under study is a $500 million pipeline with 60 million tons annual capacity, to run from Iraq to Iskenderuri, Turkey. Another idea is for an internationalized Middle East pipeline system administered by all transit countries, with oil companies simply paying for services rendered. By letting the Arab nations run the lines, the oil companies might lessen the dangers of sabotage...