Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tension eased, and the barricades first put up last May began to go down in Beirut streets. Premier Karami helped cool things off by announcing that "our chief responsibility is to bind up the wounds and wash the traces of blood from the face of Lebanon." At heart an Arab nationalist ("I consider Nasser a superman," he said recently), Karami is nevertheless on record as opposing merger with the United Arab Republic...
...government authority" and "above all, the speedy evacuation of foreign forces." A Christian elected with Moslem support, Chehab pledged himself to uphold "the unwritten constitution." This was the 1943 compact in which Lebanon's Christian and Moslem communities agreed that Moslems would refrain from urging merger with other Arab states, Christians would hold back from aligning the country too closely with any Western power...
There are signs of trouble in the top leadership. Grizzled General Kassem is no man to be taken for another Naguib. After the July revolution his right-hand man, Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Mohammed Aref, rushed to Damascus to share Nasser's balcony, returned promising quick Arab unity through union with Nasser's U.A.R., seemed to be challenging Kassem's leadership. Touring the country making rabble-rousing speeches, Aref promised to strip landlords of their vast holdings, foreigners of more of treir oil profits. But Iraq's big Kurdish minority fear they might be submerged...
...13th U.N. General Assembly opened in Manhattan last week, Lebanese Foreign Minister Charles Malik shook off the last-minute challenge of the Nasser-led Arab League, which put forward the Sudan's Foreign Minister as a rival "Arab" candidate, and with strong backing from the U.S. won election as Assembly President by a comfortable 45-to-31 vote...
...undergraduates to be quite tedious. One of the public forums on Education and Science was widely praised, however, and weekly panel discussions by members of the International Seminar proved quite popular. During the height of the Middle East crisis the Egyptian delegate frequently raised the temperatures of forums on Arab unity. Indian and French delegates "disinflated their national egos" at one forum, and a British delegate asserted that "our shrinking pains will not stop until government policy stops parading Britain as a major power...