Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...downfall of his most hated Arab rival, and in the hour of his own victory, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser put on the appearance of a reasonable man: "Why does America get mad when free men of Iraq say they will protect their agreements, obligations and the peace?" Although the new Iraqi regime quickly signed a defense pact "against aggression" with Nasser, it promised to keep oil flowing to the West. Yet Nasser himself, in the first days of the nerve-jangling week, had been unable to sustain the look of the innocent and casual vacationer sailing through...
...Russia would ever resort to brinkmanship. The U.S. could resign itself to a long summer of Russian indignation, parades, protest meetings. All of this uproar might easily obscure the main facts of the week: that in the troubled crossroads of the Middle East, the misty but passionate creed of Arab unity had destroyed every major Western position; and that the West had yet to find a way to live with the creed or to bring it down-and had not even decided which course was more desirable...
...Leave") and identified his unit as the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Marine Regiment than one of his men appeared with a "Lebanese officer" in tow. Barked Colonel Hadd: "If he's not armed, let him loose." Thereupon the "officer" nervously identified his uniform as that of the Arab Airways and asked in English, "I know you're busy, sir, but could you tell us how long this will last? We have a lot of planes tied...
...done much fighting so far, might be talking only for the record. But if the marines (and the later arriving Army paratroopers) seemed to have the military situation in hand, as much could not be said for the political front. In the delicately balanced half-Christian, half-Moslem Arab nation, the Moslems began to solidify their opposition to Maronite Christian President Chamoun. Adel Osseyran, Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, protested to the U.N. against Chamoun's failure to consult Deputies before calling for U.S. help. One pro-Western Deputy said that 40 of the 66 members of parliament were...
...place particularly hot went off on a graciously appointed yachting cruise with his family to visit his old friend Tito at the marshal's isle of Brioni in the blue Adriatic. In that way, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt, President and founder of the New United Arab Republic, could escape the heat built up by his subversive doings in Lebanon. And he could also pursue his studies at Tito's knee in the perilous and racking business of how to run a revolution with Moscow's approbation and material help-but without letting the Russians...