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Word: arab (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crook Into Cop. Inside this velvet-lined grab bag there was something for almost everyone. For the neutralist powers of Asia, there was the firm reference to "early withdrawal of foreign troops"-a phrase which, to their distress, was missing from the Norwegian resolution. In the renewal of the Arab League pledges of noninterference in one another's affairs, there was a sop to U.S. and British concern over indirect aggression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: While Thousands Cheered | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...Gromyko, complaining that the resolution did not call for "immediate withdrawal" of U.S. and British troops, threatened to reopen the debate at the next regular Assembly session (Sept. 16). From the Israelis came the bitter complaint that "This makes the Middle East's prime troublemakers-Nasser and the Arab League -into its policemen." But in the last analysis, nobody wanted to go on record as opposing an Arab solution to Arab problems, and when it came to a vote the resolution passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: While Thousands Cheered | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...would think twice about inheriting the creaky state of Jordan if he felt that Israel would fight to keep Jordan out of his hands. Nasser's economic and political difficulties in absorbing Syria (TIME, June 30) may also have persuaded him that out-and-out annexation of other Arab countries is a poor idea. Provided that he can bring the rest of the Arab world under his sway-as he has already done in Iraq and Saudi Arabia-the Egyptian dictator might be content with a loose federation of Arab states rather than one imperial Egyptianrun nation. These were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: While Thousands Cheered | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...fact was that the West had decided that if it could not in conscience join in Arab nationalism, it would no longer fight it, and would even put up money to help "legitimate" Arab nationalism. The trouble is that the controlling interest in Arab nationalism is now owned by Nasser. In winning a breathing spell in the Middle East, the U.S. and Britain had all but conceded hegemony of the Arab world-at least during reasonably good behavior-to a man and a nation steeped in hostility to the West. The Egyptians were among those most jubilant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: While Thousands Cheered | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...West Germany planned to make $125 million in long-term credits available to Arab, Asian and Latin American nations. Helpful as this would be to the recipients, it was also designed to give West German exporters a competitive edge in some rapidly expanding markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AID: What Money Can Buy | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

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