Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...journalist "we could supply Soviet machines and specialists to Brazil." In his most formal black hat he welcomed Polish Communist Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka at the rainswept Byelorussian station for an important party visit. But his flashing feat of the week was bringing off an international propaganda coup in the Arab Middle East...
...their very first session, the Tunisian delegates attacked "some Arab countries that attempt to dominate the league's meetings." In a huff, the Egyptian delegation walked out. Since this might be admitting that the charge was true and the shoe pinched, the Egyptians returned four days later, full of glossy assurances of "our brotherly relations with Tunisia and of sincere cordiality." But without quitting the Arab League, Tunisia took a further step last week: it broke off diplomatic relations with Cairo. Why the abrupt shift...
...Israeli attack on Egypt in 1956, the army commander in central Israel ordered a 5 p.m. curfew enforced in Arab villages near the Jordan border. Colonel Issachar Shadmi told Major Shmuel Malinki of the border police that this order was to be strictly enforced, that any villager found abroad after the curfew hour was to be shot. In midafternoon Major Malinki passed the order along to his company commanders, adding, "May Allah have mercy on their souls." On the stroke of 5, Lieut. Gabriel Dehan deployed his constables in three groups around the Arab village of Kfar Kassim...
...nation that feels itself menaced on all sides by Arab nations sworn to its destruction, so ugly an episode might have been disregarded or forgotten. But six weeks after the Sinai invasion, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion publicly confirmed the massacre of Kfar Kassim's villagers "coming home in all innocence" and led Parliament in a solemn expression of contrition. The government paid indemnity to the victims' families ($2,500 to $3,500), brought the killers to court. Last week, after a trial that lasted through 102 sittings and took 5,000 pages of evidence, a special military...
...free its oil from the entanglement of Arab politics and the dangers of a blockaded Suez Canal, Iran last week signed an agreement with its Baghdad Pact partner, Turkey, for a $500 million oil pipeline. Presumably, oil from the rich new northern field of Qum will be piped over the mountains to a Mediterranean port in southern Turkey. Estimated savings in oil transport costs...