Word: arabicize
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Thus there was nothing surprising or particularly ominous about the approach, at 7 o'clock Wednesday morning, of another pair of Libyan aircraft from the south. The Hawkeyes detected them and radioed the CAP. Two silvery F-14s from the Nimitz swung south, spotted the Libyans on their radar...
The handsome, square-jawed Gaddafi wasted little time in building his reputation. Shortly after leading the 1969 army coup that deposed 80-year-old King Idris, Gaddafi, then only 27, began to apply his peculiar blend of Islamic fundamentalism, Arab nationalism and desert-bred xeno phobia to his country. He...
Even so, as they crossed the eastern bank of the Gulf of Aqaba and began to climb over the nearby rocky red mountains, the higher-flying F-15s were picked up by Jordanian radar based at Ma'an. The station radioed the planes in Arabic, using international emergency frequencies. The...
(6 of 12) prepared. They replied in perfect Arabic, apparently convincing the ground spotters that the sighting was either Jordanian or Saudi aircraft. As the flight went on, the Israelis were aided by the fact that the surrounding Arab countries have failed to establish an integrated air defense command. Thus...
Dothan quickly spotted numerous fragments of old pottery, including bits similar to the Egyptian-style artifacts in Jerusalem. Since there were signs that grave robbers had been at work, Dothan wanted to start excavating immediately. But terrorism was still rampant in the Gaza Strip; it was three years before the...