Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia all but dropped its pious pretense that its only concern is Arab welfare. Said Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko coldly: "Our attitude ... is prescribed by the interests of the Soviet Union's security." In a series of private conversations, clearly designed to terrify Arab and Asian delegates, Gromyko conveyed the impression that Russia was prepared to intervene militarily even if the present Syrian regime were overthrown by internal revolt...
...midst of the intricacies of Arab diplomacy, myopic, 55-year-old King Saud found time for love. Last week Beirut's Al Hawadis broke the news that Saud planned to acquire a new wife: 17-year-old Ferial Solh, niece of Lebanese Premier Sami Solh...
...French army jeep squealed to a halt as a sullen young Arab planted himself in the middle of the casbah street and refused to budge. A French private named Geronimo leaped from the jeep, and unlimbering his Tommy gun, faced the Moslem troublemaker. From the sidelines an old Arab shuffled forward and tried to soothe his compatriot: "Go home. Come on, don't be mulish.'' Before the old Arab had finished his plea, Private Geronimo's Tommy gun stuttered in reply, and the old man "collapsed softly, muttering to himself unintelligibly while his blood flowed down...
Ribbon-Happy Pols. The Arab fanatics are the terroristic fellaghas who have converted every isolated colonial's farmhouse, every road, every French-employed work gang into a guerrilla front line. A bout of fellagha Mau-Mauism periodically drives the local European population into a frenzy. Whole villages go on "gook-hunts." Says Servan-Schreiber: "The police and the army are helpless ... so they let the wave pass, hoping that the Arabs are not fools enough to stay out of doors. In a small town, by the time the fun is over, there will be two or three of them...
...what Lieut. Servan-Schreiber has to report is dreadful, but men of good will fare almost worse than the corrupt brutalitarians. One officer was so dedicated to winning back the trust of the native population that he founded an Arab-French unit. On patrol, his outfit was betrayed into ambush and he was machine-gunned by one of his own Arabs...