Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle East, the swelling force of Arab nationalism was bound to burst at some moment in Lebanon after Nasser spread his United Arab Republic to the tiny country's very border. It was the murder of a pro-Nasser editor, assassin unknown, that set off the mob against Lebanon's pro-Western government. There was no clear evidence that Nasser wanted the outbreak at that moment or had decreed its timing. He had merely fanned existing discontent beforehand, and his agents were prepared to ride it afterward. As Cairo, Damascus and Moscow radios dinned encouragement of the insurrection...
Circumstances demanded an election. Before Iraq could merge with the desert kingdom of Jordan to form an Arab federation opposed to Nasser's, Iraq's tough old (70) Strongman Nuri asSaid needed a mandate from his Iraqi voters. They had no more choice in the matter of candidates than Nasser gave the Egyptians in the plebiscite he ran off last February. Nuri was not even so insistent as Nasser that everyone get out and vote. Last week about 25% of the voters turned out peaceably at the polls, and Nuri Pasha's candidates, being unopposed...
...federation, Nuri is expected to resign, and then the two young Hashemite cousins, Iraq's King Feisal and Jordan's King Hussein, will name 20 Deputies apiece to form the new federal Parliament. Then Feisal as chief of state will ask somebody to put together a new Arab federation Cabinet. The new Premier will almost certainly be Nuri Pasha himself, or else someone agreeable to the man who fought in the original World War I Arab nationalist "desert revolt" against the Turks, has 14 times been Iraq's Premier, and its strongman for the last generation...
...carriers, most nations insist, for nationalistic reasons, on filling at least 50% of all air-crew jobs with their own men. Many of the native flyers do not yet have the training for the job. One U.S. captain for Saudi Arabian Airlines reports that his invariable instruction to his Arab copilot is "Don't touch anything." Indonesia's ambitious (39 planes) Garuda airline is in serious trouble since it fired all Dutch pilots and technicians; also facing trouble is Union of Burma Airways, with few experts-and with three Viscount turboprops on order...
...airmen think they should stay out of the international big leagues and concentrate on regional feeder operations where they can perform a real economic service. A prime example is Lebanon's Middle East Airlines (48% British Overseas Airways Corp. owned), which operates a profitable Viscount service throughout the Arab world-where air traffic increases 30% annually (world increase: 13%)-and has no ambitions beyond operating as a feeder service. A second solution for small lines would be to merge with others to form one major international unit along the lines of Scandinavia's SAS, which has enough traffic...