Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French and German extemporaneously and translate all into flawless English. He quotes as readily from The Divine Comedy as from Beowulf. He has taught graduate students Anglo-Saxon, lectured at the University of Texas, made a hobby of Old Norse poetry and extended his metaphysical range to Egypt to Arabia to China...
...business accepting it. Botswana, for example, is an empty but now sovereign desert, Gambia a wriggle of jungle riverbank, and the Maldives a spatter of coral atolls mostly inhabited by starfish. Few lands, however, have been so ill-prepared to rule themselves as the Federation of South Arabia, which Britain announced last week will become independent by the end of November...
...South Arabia consists of the port of Aden and 17 feudal satraps whose Bedouin tribesmen eat goat meat and carry everywhere their curved djambias (daggers). Its life has been disrupted and its British-sponsored federal government destroyed by four years of terrorism and civil war. With the British will depart much of the country's economy. London paid most government expenses. British troops generated 30% of the country's gross national product, the British free port brought tourist dollars into Aden, and the British Petroleum Co. built the Federation's only significant industry-an oil refinery...
...wonder British Foreign Secretary George Brown told the House of Commons in wistful tones: "Her Majesty's government has not had an easy road to follow in bringing South Arabia to independence...
Guns on the Sea. The new nation, which will be known as South Yemen rather than South Arabia, hopes eventually to merge with neighboring Yemen. Meantime, it is asking the British to support it to the tune of $55 million a year for three years. The N.L.F. intends to run the country along the lines of Arab socialism, but disavows any Communist leanings. It also plans a policy of "positive neutrality"-though its idea of neutrality sounds rather limited. Both the N.L.F. and FLOSY have promised to set up artillery positions commanding the mouth of the Red Sea. Once they...