Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patrol reported seizing 1,000 rounds of Egyptian ammunition, other military equipment and two camels hidden in a cave in the southern part of the country. One man was arrested. He was described as an armed Arab from Egyptian-governed Gaza...
This is the third attempt at smuggling arms from the United Arab Republic reported by the Jordanian authorities since last July...
Iran remains a precarious outpost. The bloody July revolution in neighboring Iraq sent an apprehensive shudder through Iran's top thousand families and made them more receptive to the Shah's reforms. Though Iran is a Moslem nation, its people are not Arab, and the Shah is thus insulated from the Nasser virus. The Soviet Union, through pudgy Ambassador Nikolai Pegov, has lately purred friendship and slyly supported Iran's claim to Britain's oil-rich Bahrein Island. The Soviet Union sent its dancers and acrobats, sponsored joint Russian-Iranian projects such as locust control...
...China intervened in Korea, they urged that the U.S. pull back, suggested that Korea might be "strategically futile," feared that a major effort there would leave Europe exposed. They stood against U.S. intervention in Indo-China in 1954, and this year opposed U.S. action in Lebanon: "The whole Arab world [will be] inflamed against us." Their present position on Berlin is discursive, but on the side of the West's remaining in West Berlin...
This sprawling novel sets out to give full-dress treatment to the founding of the state of Israel. Reaching from the first Zionist stirrings in 1881 to the Arab war of 1947, Author Uris packs his pages with arresting scenes. Leaky, spavined steamers, jammed to the scuppers with Jews, make the dangerous run to the Palestine beaches; murder gangs of Jews and Arabs hunt each other out in the sun-bleached hills; intrigue and chicanery fill the halls of the United Nations and the chancelleries of Europe; the innocent and the defenseless suffer and die more often than the clashing...