Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ready to discuss a settlement with France without insisting on prior French recognition of Algerian independence. To indicate that they have an alternative, should De Gaulle not respond, the F.L.N. is talking up a daring scheme that could create real trouble: they would call for "armed volunteers" from the Arab world, not because they lack manpower but in order to widen the conflict...
...keep under purview the adherence of all" Arab neighbors to the amity pledge they gave in last summer's U.N. resolution, Hammarskjold set up in Jordan's capital of Amman a new "U.N. organ," in the person of Under Secretary Pier P. Spinelli of Italy. He in turn would have other watchdogs in Beirut and Damascus -but not in Cairo, where President Nasser insists there is no need...
Though his crown is as precariously perched as when the British arrived last summer, Jordan's young King Hussein last week said he could now run his own show, released political prisoners in droves, and talked blissfully of his hopes for better relations with his Arab neighbors. Perhaps he counted on Nasser's being too busy with his own internal problems, or too leary of Israel to start something...
...organization under the auspices of the United Nations to take the place of war and power politics in settling international problems. Such an agency would attract some of the best men from all over the world. It would work on such problems as the Chinese off-shore islands, the Arab refugees in Lebanon, and the chance of an accidental nuclear...
...Director Shmuel Yeivin of Israel's Department of Antiquities set 100 laborers digging into Tell Goliath, as it came to be called. On top they found a largely Arab cemetery. Below it were traces of Greek and Persian influence. Even lower was an Israelite layer, which showed signs of a great fire that Yeivin thinks may have raged in 586 B.C., during the Babylonian invasion under Nebuchadnezzar. Beneath was a city of the Canaanites, who occupied the Promised Land before Joshua's invasion...