Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President offered no specific formulas for carrying out any of these points, but this vagueness was deliberate: it would take long and patient consultation with other delegations to work out formulas that a majority of the U.N.'s members would support-and that the Arab countries would accept. Only on point five did the President elaborate. A regional development program, he said, might make it possible to solve the Middle East's "great common shortage-water." With mid-century advances in water technology (see SCIENCE), the "ancient problem of water is on the threshold of solution. Energy, determination...
Surly Refusal. After the deserts blossom again. President Eisenhower said, the world might see an "Arab renaissance," with modern Arab nations making contributions to civilization surpassing the Islamic advances in mathematics, astronomy and medicine during Europe's Middle Ages. Throughout his speech, the President took Arab feeling into account, tried to avoid giving any impression that the U.S. was seeking to dictate to the Arab world. He stressed that the U.S. did not want "a position of leadership" in the regional economic program, that "the goals must be Arab goals," and that Arab peoples "clearly possess the right...
...despite all the efforts to placate them, Arabs responded to the President's six-point plan with a surly refusal to discuss any constructive steps until U.S. and British troops get out of Lebanon and Jordan (see FOREIGN NEWS). Because of this foreseeable Arab attitude, plus the fact that the U.S. has only one vote out of 81, it was predictable that the General Assembly would not, at the current emergency session at least, adopt any detailed program for carrying out the U.S.'s six points. All the U.S. could expect-and all the Administration expected...
...East, he contributed directly to the policies set forth in the President's U.N. speech; 2) by rallying rival Lebanese parties behind compromise President-elect Fuad Chehab, he arranged a shaky sort of cease-fire and brought a promise of political order to Lebanon; 3) he shrewdly impressed Arab leaders, both friendly and hostile, with the key fact that the U.S. had shown itself able and willing to help its friends in the Middle East-while the U.S.S.R., for all its ballistic-blackmail diplomacy, had backed off when the going got rough...
...were substantial accomplishments, for the image of itself that the U.S. puts before the world matters. But the problems of the Middle East-including the most crucial immediate one of how to get British troops out of Jordan without leaving behind chaos, a Nasser take-over or an Israeli-Arab war-were as far from solution as ever...