Word: arab
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Died. Bertha Spafford Vester, 90, Jerusalem's Florence Nightingale, who cared for thousands of Christians, Moslems and Jews under four flags (Turkish, British, Jordanian and Israeli); in Jerusalem. Called "Ummuna" (mother of us all) by her Arab friends, the ex-Chicagoan (who moved to the Holy City in 1881 with her parents) treated both British and Turkish soldiers wounded in the city during World War I, Jewish and Arab soldiers during the 1948 war. Her Spafford Memorial Children's Hospital, founded in 1925, is now -with its infant-welfare center and 60-bed clinic-one of the best...
Even before last year's Arab-Israeli war, the Suez Canal was fast diminishing in importance. Oil tankers, which accounted for almost half of all Suez traffic, were getting too big for it. As a result, more and more Middle Eastern oil was being shipped in giant tankers around the Cape of Good Hope. Faced with the prospect of dwindling profits from the waterway, Egypt began giving thought to building an overland pipeline as an alternate route for transmitting oil to the Mediterranean Sea. Then, when Israel came up with the same idea following...
Once their pipelines are completed, Egypt and Israel will find themselves ri vals for the same trade. Cairo is obviously counting on its Arab neighbors, which currently produce 75% of the Middle East's oil annually, to keep its line bubbling. The region's only major non-Arab producer is Iran, on which Israel relies for much of its domestic oil needs. But predominantly Moslem Iran is sure to come under heavy Arab pressure to steer its oil-cargo trade in Cairo's direction. So, even though its pipeline is expected to be finished first, Israel...
...believe that it is rather unseemly to leap so hastily to the conclusion that the motive of Robert Kennedy's accused assassin derives from his virulent Arab nationalism, as you imply [June 14]. Let us wait and see what the trial will disclose-if it takes place; for another accident may occur. In any case, the fact remains that the only three men who since F.D.R.'s time seriously threatened the status quo are no more. And no presidential or other oratory will stop any thinking man, American or European, from regarding as strange the assertion that...
Author Gaia Servadio is the beautiful Italian-born wife of William Mostyn-Owen, an art expert at Christie's, the London auction house. She has modeled, acted in experimental films, exhibited her paintings in Milan and Rome, and covered last year's Arab-Israeli war for the Daily Telegraph...