Word: arabian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arabs are suffering from one of history's worst inferiority complexes, caused by the shock of discovering that a glorious past has become irrelevant in a powerless present. The original Arabs were the Semitic tribesmen of the Arabian Peninsula, the passionate nomads and born makers of creeds, whom T. E. Lawrence called "people of primary colors." Today one can hardly define an Arab; the name spans a racial rainbow. "Arabs" may be squat Lebanese, tall Saudis, white Syrians or grape-black Sudanese. They include dollar-dizzy Kuwaiti, secretive Druzes, Gallicized Algerians and Christian Copts. Only about 10% are nomads...
...sword. With little else to sustain them, the Arabs rely on oil royalties and taxes for $2.5 billion in annual income. And the longer the shutdowns lasted, the more the Arabs were out of pocket. Saudi Arabia alone was estimated to be losing $2,000,000 every day the Arabian American Oil Co. was closed down...
...sabotage," ordered Syria to close down its embassy in Amman and recalled its own diplomats from Damascus. In Yemen, Egyptian troops launched a new campaign aimed at driving Yemeni royalists from a stronghold in the northern mountains; in raids during the previous week, Egyptian planes had bombed two Saudi Arabian towns. Forgotten entirely last week was unified Arab military command, established three years ago to oversee any joint effort against Israel. Both Egypt and Syria refused under any circumstances to coordinate their military plans with their brother Arabs of the non-leftist nations. Jordan's Army...
...Israel" -and demanded that Nasser come to its rescue. Nasser has no desire to take on the powerful Israeli army, which he knows is more than a match for all the Arab forces combined. His military interests, furthermore, lie not in Israel but in Yemen and in the South Arabian Federation, which is due to receive its independence from Britain next year. Despite his reluctance, however, Nasser had no choice but to respond to the Syrian S O S-or lose what little prestige he still has as the leader of the Arab left...
Reluctant Plea. Nasser disavows any intention of sending troops into Aden when the British grant that colony independence next year. But the terrorist organizations that he supports have made it all but impossible for Britain to make an orderly withdrawal from either Aden or the larger South Arabian Federation, of which it is a part. They have refused to take part in any coalition with the British-backed government. Instead, the Nasserite Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY) is training an army of more than 5,000 men in nearby Yemen to take over when the British...