Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While her father (Nuri asSaid) arranged a good marriage (with the West), Iraq eloped with her true love (freedom and Arab nationalism...
...occupation of Lebanon and Britain's occupation of Jordan cannot do any harm to Arab nationalism except delay the liberation of these two countries and arouse Arab hatred...
...answer to its invitation to a U.N. summit conference, home-front diplomats got to work on a crash basis to draft a comprehensive-if belated-U.S. policy for the Middle East. Essence of the plan: 1) a permanent new United Nations police force to keep the peace, monitor Arab radio broadcasts, news sheets, calls for assassinations, etc.; 2) a new international-assistance plan for Arab refugees still homeless after the Arab-Israel war of 1948; 3) a new international economic development plan. Considered but discarded to date: an arms embargo for the Middle East...
...dealings with Tunisia's hard-pressed Premier Habib Bourguiba. De Gaulle's predecessors, by refusing to withdraw French troops from southern Tunisia, by meekly backing the French military's unauthorized bombing of the Tunisian village of Sakiet, were slowly driving away the man in Arab North Africa who had shown himself most friendly and understanding toward the West, and most resistant to Nasser. French ineptness was also pushing Bourguiba into deeper alliance with Algeria's extremist rebels...
...left over from Suez. The oilmen were the backbone of the Foreign Petroleum Supply Committee, whose members formed a special committee to keep Europe's oil flowing in 1956 during the Suez crisis. Present purpose: to keep oil coming in case the fields in Iraq-or any other Arab land-should be suddenly shut down. Said Seaton: "We must be prepared to move, and move quickly...