Word: arabian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, both armies were digging in along the Punjab plain, their battalions stretching 800 miles, from the Kashmir border to the Rann of Kutch on the Arabian Sea. New Delhi reported "very fierce fighting" around Lahore and Sialkot and said its tank forces had killed two Pakistani generals, but neither side was claiming major advances and the battle line appeared to be temporarily stable. No ground fighting at all was reported from East Pakistan, 1,000 miles from the Punjab front, although Shastri warned that Indian troops might move at any time. On the Indian side, there were...
...visit to Saudi Arabia. He had arrived in Jedda harbor aboard his presidential yacht Hurriah (Freedom) to negotiate with King Feisal a way out of the stalemated three-year war in Yemen. Egypt's ruler was ready to compromise, for his long, expensive military campaign on the Arabian peninsula was an obvious failure...
...America. Many major U.S. banks, in fact, are expanding into unlikely earners of the globe, and several of them are growing faster abroad than at home. Last week Manhattan's First National City Bank -which already has outposts from Santo Domingo to Dubai, the chief port of the Arabian Trucial States - opened an other in the Chowringhi section of Calcutta, and this week Manhattan's Mor gan Guaranty Trust Co. will open a branch in Antwerp. In all, the number of foreign branches operated by U.S. banks has risen in the past five years from...
Pakistan calls the 8,000-sq.-mi. area an inland sea (and indeed during the monsoon season most of it is blanketed with four feet of water from the Arabian Sea), hence feels the boundary should be drawn halfway through the Rann. Shastri last week invoked etymology to prove that the Rann is not a sea but a swamp, deriving as it does from the Sanskrit irinam, meaning "salty marsh." Therefore, the Indian Prime Minister argued, the boundary must remain as drawn by the British way back...
...offensive in Yemen. In preparation, the Egyptian expeditionary force was beefed up to 48,000 men, and a fresh array of Soviet-made tanks, heavy artillery and jet planes was massed in the north, where the deposed Imam Badr makes his headquarters in a cave near the Saudi Arabian border. Republican President Abdullah Sallal fired his moderate Premier and gave Yemen's tough General Hassan Amri a mandate to take charge...