Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sign of the danger. Should the British go home, leave Hussein to be ousted by Nasserites? In such a case Israel, its existence threatened as never before, might even take military action. British troops were thus holding the peace while accused of spreading war. Rather than accept a third Arab-Israeli war with its incalculable risks to the great powers (and its threat to his Nasserite friends), Khrushchev might prove willing to accept some kind of U.N. guarantee, not of Hussein's regime, but of Jordan's continued independence...
...office, he will probably ask that U.S. forces be withdrawn. Anti-Communist and essentially pro-Western, he believes Lebanon cannot survive unless it works out a lasting relationship with Nasser. Chehab is likely to withdraw Chamoun's commitment to the Eisenhower Doctrine and reaffirm Lebanese neutrality among Arab lands. Nonetheless, Washington calls him the "best hope" for peace in Lebanon...
...Baghdad Pact is no longer what it was now that its only Arab affiliate, Iraq, will probably soon opt out. In some ways the Northern Tier alliance is tidier. Even Israel should be less troubled by an agreement that will no longer deliver arms to an Arab nation sworn to wipe out Israel. (Shortly before the coup, the U.S. delivered five jets to Iraq.) But the remaining members of the pact-Britain, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan-were shaken by Iraq's defection, and the Moslem nations in particular demanded dramatic proof of U.S. support...
...Though all defense plans assumed logistic connections across Iraq, and the Iraqi rebels apparently captured a cache of the pact's plans in Baghdad, including lists of agents in the Arab world. Radio Cairo, whose reputation for veracity assays amazing low, has already begun to broadcast what it declares is information from the seized records...
...still they listened: "Now King Hussein, the enemy of his people, the enemy of Arabs, the enemy of humanity, brings back the British so they can stomp on the dignity of the Arab people in Jordan as they did in the past. What kind of a King is this? What kind of blood flows in his veins? This is surely not Arab blood...